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From: "Jamie Burns" <jamie.burns@dynamicexpression.co.uk>
References: <20040428075140.0fe1697f@debian> <1083154236.8244.12.camel@rapid>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] no virtual network emulation
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:32:51 +0100
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Could it not be turned into a more friendly error message like:

BIOS: Bootsector could not be found.

Or something similar?

J.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J. Mayer" <l_indien@magic.fr>
To: <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] no virtual network emulation


> On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 12:51, Savio Ramos wrote:
> > Qemu 0.5.2-4 don't run. I did:
> 
> [...]
> > $ dd if=/dev/zero of=emu.img bs=1024 count=614400
> > 
> > $ qemu -boot a -hda /home/savio/emu.img
> > 
> > warning: could not open /dev/net/tun: no virtual network emulation
> > BIOS panic at rombios.c, line 1558
> 
> your disk image if empty. So it's not bootable, and the BIOS can't find
> a valid bootsector. So it stops...
> 
> -- 
> J. Mayer <l_indien@magic.fr>
> Never organized
> 
> 
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