From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] initrd not working
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 18:24:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061202232446.GA18027@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061202231857.GA12814@streefland.xs4all.nl>
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 12:18:58AM +0100, Dick Streefland wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I run qemu-0.8.2 on Kubuntu, and I would like to test an initramfs by
> booting the kernel with qemu. However, I'm having problems with the
> initrd. The kernel reports "bad gzip magic numbers" when checking the
> initramfs, both with a compressed ext2 filesystem image and with a
> compressed cpio archive. What am I doing wrong?
I don't know, but I'll be interested to find out. I tried two
different kernels on Debian amd64, and one of them could load an initrd
but the other mysteriously couldn't.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-02 23:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-02 23:18 [Qemu-devel] initrd not working Dick Streefland
2006-12-02 23:24 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2006-12-04 21:24 ` [Qemu-devel] " Dick Streefland
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