From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DCL0p-00058v-36 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:11:51 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DCL0j-00055x-2b for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:11:47 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCL0h-00053u-RC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:11:43 -0500 Received: from [62.65.128.20] (helo=ddba020.netstream.ch) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1DCKbp-0005ii-0M for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:46:01 -0500 Message-ID: <423B0576.6010800@hispeed.ch> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:44:38 +0100 From: Stefan Kisdaroczi MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu problem (you might be my last resort) References: <423A9AF8.2010304@web.de> <20050318154550.GA21274@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> In-Reply-To: <20050318154550.GA21274@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigE593728BCF44534F94071B04" 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 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigE593728BCF44534F94071B04 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Did you try to set "-L" ? -L path // set the directory for the BIOS and VGA BIOS regards kisda Jim C. Brown wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:10:16AM +0100, Robin Pfeifer wrote: > >>>On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 09:06:22PM +0100, Robin Pfeifer wrote: >>> >>>>When I start qemu with the following command: >>>> >>>>qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom -boot d -snapshot -m 256 >>>> >>>>with any bootable CD in the drive, I only get a qemu window with the >>>>tile 'qemu stopped'. I cannot get into the monitor by pressing ctrl + >>>>alt + 2 or do anything else except ctrl + c in the terminal where I >>>>started qemu to cancel it. >> > > Out of curiosity, does it work if you use an iso image instead of /dev/cdrom? > > If you "-boot a" from a floppy disk image, will that work or does it have the > same error? (You can download a FreeDOS boot disk if u don't have a way to > get a bootable floppy disk image). > > >>>>The command used to work perfectly with various versions of qemu, but >>>>now doesn't anymore. I've tried CVS versions after 0.6.1 stopped >>>>working, but to no avail. >>>> >> > > Does using older versions of qemu work? (Sorry if I'm asking questions that > you have already answered but I don't remember the original email). > > >>>>At first only my user ID had the problem, and root worked - but then I >>>>tried the -m 350 parameter with root, too, (not thinking, at the time, >>>>that it could be the cause of the problem) and since then, root hasn't >>>>been able to use qemu anymore either. >> >>>if u add a new user, can that user use qemu (provided you don't try >> >>"-m 350") ? >> >>No, I tried that yesterday, but a new user gets the same error. Root >>used not to get it when the user already did, but after using -m 350 >>with root, it no longer worked for root either. >> > > > This is the most confusing thing of all. > --------------enigE593728BCF44534F94071B04 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCOwV2IPTw9rIdn6oRAsVoAJ9o6aqQBsITdkFXvHKDVFhrjSP/sQCdGde0 Hab8auVOSHuACDHnJh2WLaM= =zsEw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigE593728BCF44534F94071B04--