Re: [Qemu-devel] Problems with Zeta LiveCD

[Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@gmail.com>]

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That gets me (with -fda substituted for -floppy, which isn't a valid option)
an error from the QEMU BIOS that the disk is not bootable. It's too large (
1.8Mb) to fit on a regular floppy anyhow.

On 10/23/05, Christian Wiese <developlists@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Sorry, haven´t the files here till now.
> But maybe you could try something like that:
> qemu -floppy zetaboot.img -cdrom zetacd.img -boot a
> If I get the live cd the next days I´ll try with it myself.
>
> Greetings,
> Chris
>
> Ulf Magnusson wrote:
>
> > I noticed the official distribution already has the two tracks split
> > into zetaboot.img and zetacd.img, so that's less work me :)
> >
> > I ran
> >
> > $ qemu -cdrom zetaboot.img -hda zetacd.img -boot d
> >
> > and selected the hd from the boot menu. That led to a kernel panic
> > (PANIC: boot device not found").
> >
> > I then tried running without any hd, and instead changed the disk to
> > zetacd.img from the console when the prompt for the CD came up. That
> > way I got to the magnifying glass stage of the ZETA boot screen, but
> > there it panics with "PANIC: no shell!". Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks for your reply,
> > Ulf
> >
> > On 10/23/05, *Christian Wiese* <developlists@gmx.de
> > <mailto:developlists@gmx.de>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > this behaviour is because of the way a BeOS/ZETA cd is
> > constructed. For
> > some more infos take a look at the bottom of this page:
> > http://forum.mlotz.ch/viewtopic.php?t=120
> > <http://forum.mlotz.ch/viewtopic.php?t=120>
> >
> > What you could do:
> > - Make a boot floppy out of track one of your demo-cd.
> > - Extract the second track as iso (be sure to take only the second
> > track)
> > - In qEmu boot from your virtual floppy, press `space` to access the
> > bootmenu and select your virtual hd.
> > This way I get a complete ZETA installed in qEmu. But don´t expect to
> > much, as most hardware is currently not supported (the last time i
> > tried)
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Chris
> >
> >
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