From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GURb7-0002G4-85 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:28:57 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GURb6-0002FR-73 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:28:56 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GURb5-0002FO-Uo for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:28:56 -0400 Received: from [192.76.135.70] (helo=kurt.TooLs.DE) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GURh7-0006nr-Dh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:35:09 -0400 Message-Id: <200610021735.k92HZmfe027553@imap1.tools.intra> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 19:28:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Juergen Keil Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu/target-i386 helper.c MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-MD5: BE9rNP/1+/DAT967dEAa9w== Reply-To: Juergen Keil , qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: paul@jakma.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org > > Try to boot with the kernel debugger enabled, so that you can read > > the panic message (I guess it reboots because of a panic). > > D'oh, I should have known that ;). It's not able to mount root. One > thing it says on IDE init is: > > ata_set_feature: (0x66,0x0) failed Harmless. > Then lots of 'timeout: reset bus, target=0, lun=0' and other warnings > with: > > Error for command 'read sector' Error Level: informational > Sense Key: aborted command > Vendor 'Gen-ATA' error code: 0x3 That's a new problem. It seems that the updated bios.bin doesn't setup the ide disk for DMA mode any more, or something like that. I'm seeing the same problem after a qemu cvs update. When I replace qemu/share/qemu/bios.bin with an older version the problem is gone.