From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GqeDy-0002Ed-Jg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:24:50 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GqeDw-0002Dk-6O for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:24:49 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GqeDv-0002Dh-Vv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:24:48 -0500 Received: from [66.93.172.17] (helo=nevyn.them.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GqeDv-000789-PL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:24:47 -0500 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GqeDu-0004hX-Re for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:24:46 -0500 Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 18:24:46 -0500 From: Daniel Jacobowitz Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] initrd not working Message-ID: <20061202232446.GA18027@nevyn.them.org> References: <20061202231857.GA12814@streefland.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061202231857.GA12814@streefland.xs4all.nl> 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 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