[Qemu-devel] Debian SID installation - IDE multimode problem

[Qemu-devel] Debian SID installation - IDE multimode problem

[Jean-Michel POURE]

Dear friends,

I fetched the latest Debian new installer from :
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/i386/20040615/sarge-i386-netinst.iso

and entered "linux26" at the prompt to install a Debian SID with 2.6.5 kernel.

Everything seemed to work fine until I rebooted. The message
"set_multmode: status set 0x41 DriveReady error" indicates an IDE multimode 
problem.

Do you know what it means?

Best regards, Jean-Michel

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian SID installation - IDE multimode problem

[Thomas Glanzmann]

Hi,

> Do you know what it means?

that means that maybe something has to be fixed in the ide simulator of
qemu. But you can disable MULTIMODE by editing hw/ide.c and set this:

/* set to 1 set disable mult support */
#define MAX_MULT_SECTORS 16

to this:

/* set to 1 set disable mult support */
#define MAX_MULT_SECTORS 1

It is located around line 188. And retry. Maybe it helps you at the
moment.

	Thomas

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian SID installation - IDE multimode problem

[Jean-Michel POURE]

Le mercredi 16 Juin 2004 22:37, Thomas Glanzmann a écrit :
> that means that maybe something has to be fixed in the ide simulator of
> qemu. But you can disable MULTIMODE by editing hw/ide.c and set this:

Dear Thomas,

Thanks for the information. I recompiled CVS head with this modification and 
it solves the error message. Now I have to reinstall Debian SID because some 
of the packages were not correctly installed previously. Will get back with 
more news...

Thank you!
Jean-Michel

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian SID installation - IDE multimode problem

[Jean-Michel POURE]

> Will get back with
> more news...

This solves the IDE problem, but now I cannot install packages using apt-get. 
The packages are downloaded through user-net proxy but fail to extract from 
archive with this error message:

http://www.poure.com/screenshots/qemu_temp_6.png
"Invalid compressed data-lenght error"

Best regards,
Jean-Michel

[Qemu-devel] User-net proxy problem

[Jean-Michel POURE]

Dear Friends,

There seems to be a problem of integrity with user-mode networking.

- Host :  Debian SID with 2.6.6 kernel
- Guest : Debian SID with 2.6.6 kernel installed from
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/i386/20040615/sarge-i386-netinst.iso 
with linux26 prompt.
- Qemu was compiled from CVS head today.

The problem is as follows:

- When the host is configured with tun networking and Qemu is started in 
normal networking mode, the Debian packages can be fetched on the Guest and 
installed correctly. Everything works fine.

- On the converse, when Qemu is started with -user-net proxy, the downloaded 
packages are broken and do not unpack well with the following error:

"Invalid compressed data-lenght error"
http://www.poure.com/screenshots/qemu_temp_6.png

Cheers,
Jean-Michel Pouré