From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DmyLi-0004b4-4Y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:28:50 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DmyLd-0004Y7-6b for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:28:45 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DmyLc-0004X5-5C for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:28:44 -0400 Received: from [128.8.10.163] (helo=po1.wam.umd.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DmyM6-0006iT-No for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:29:14 -0400 Received: from jbrown.mylinuxbox.org (jma-box.student.umd.edu [129.2.237.180]) by po1.wam.umd.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j5RIOoRu028955 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:24:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:24:36 -0400 From: "Jim C. Brown" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] What happened to linuxppc-img from Freeoszoo Message-ID: <20050627182436.GB17928@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> References: <20050627144608.GA16320@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> <003701c57b3b$73bb0350$334d21d1@organiza3bfb0e> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <003701c57b3b$73bb0350$334d21d1@organiza3bfb0e> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 12:12:43PM -0500, jeebs@yango.us wrote: > Right... But most of the images on FreeOSZoo were done using the *old* > version of qemu, where the geometry is different. > > That means the geometry on the images may not be what newer versions of qemu > expect. > > I did know that a lot of the images on there are older ones that may > have problems like reactos did, which is why I said that somebody needed to > actually test each one, just to make sure they still work. > That's why I was asking what the date of the image was. > For the record, the OpenBSD and the NetBSD images (which I downloaded from the OS Zoo back in July of '04) work perfectly fine. > > For the record, images I've used since qemu 0.5.2 still work fine with > > CVS. > > (I only use raw images though.) > > That's good for you. > > But some don't. > > The ReactOS image is a case I tested myself. When I saw it reported on the > qemu forum, it was small enough that I spent a few minutes downloading it to > test it. > > And newer versions of qemu most definetly would not handle it. Older > versions (before the geometry change) could, though. > The bochs image of ReactOS 0.2.2-FINAL (the one that you'd get from the reactos web site) still boots fine. I haven't tried the one from freeoszoo tho. -- Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty. Infinite precision begets infinite perfection.