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From: "Ed Swierk" <eswierk@arastra.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Recent BIOS breaks SYSLINUX
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 22:42:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c1bf1cf0702052242s31592bd1ld5a429a991f3c775@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

On 2/5/07, Ed Swierk <eswierk@arastra.com> wrote:
> I'm attempting to boot a Linux disk image with the SYSLINUX boot
> loader using the -nographic option. On the latest qemu CVS, the boot
> loader hangs before printing "Ready" and booting the kernel. But if I
> use the same version of qemu with the BIOS from 0.8.2, it boots just
> fine.

More testing reveals that -nographic has nothing to do with the
problem. The FC6 diskboot.img (which uses SYSLINUX) doesn't boot, even
without -nographic:

  http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/6/i386/os/images/diskboot.img

The FC6 boot.iso (which uses ISOLINUX) boots fine:

  http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/6/i386/os/images/boot.iso

as does diskboot.img with bios.bin 1.14 or earlier.

--Ed

             reply	other threads:[~2007-02-06  6:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-06  6:42 Ed Swierk [this message]
2007-02-07 23:49 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: Recent BIOS breaks SYSLINUX Lonnie Mendez
2007-02-08 10:28   ` Fabrice Bellard

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