From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HBGxW-00055c-RK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:49:06 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HBGxU-00055Q-HE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:49:05 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HBGxU-00055N-C5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:49:04 -0500 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.233]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HBGxU-0002YP-1W for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:49:04 -0500 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i11so2066880nzi for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:49:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <46d6db660701281249o61cf03bcycfad0d9106c4ecd9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:49:02 +0100 From: "Christian MICHON" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] How to run qemu (i386) without hda image? In-Reply-To: <5d649bdb0701281211xc19afcal5c2b5d10d483695b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5d649bdb0701281211xc19afcal5c2b5d10d483695b@mail.gmail.com> 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 one possibility is to include your kernel and initrd inside a bootable iso (mkisofs and isolinux are your friends: look at the man pages for numerous solutions). the kernel panic could be actually missing block drivers or your root parameter is wrong. On 1/28/07, Neo Jia wrote: > hi, > > I notice that this would be a very newbie question. Hope you can point me out. > > I am going to simulate i386 arch. But I cannot run it just with initrd > and vmlinuz just like running it for mips arch. It always complained > about missing the hda image file. When I applied the hda.img file, the > kernel will panic due to the file format (eg, ext3). > > Acturallly, my goal is trying to use qemu to setup a kernel debugging envir. > > Your help will be greatly appreciated! > > Thanks, > Neo > > -- > I would remember that if researchers were not ambitious > probably today we haven't the technology we are using! > > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel > -- Christian