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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

James Miller wrote:

> Anyway, let me ask more directly with this post.  David (Moberg), I recall
> you saying that you use qemu.  Could I ask that you download and unpack
> the BL 3.40 qemu image I made and then try booting and running it a bit,
> then post back with your results?

I've downloaded and unzipped it. I tried to mount it -o loop, but that
failed, apparently because you made a partitioned hard drive image,
and the partition table confused mount. So then I tried booting into
qemu, and that was successful. I saw the usual boot messages, as well
as something about the ne card, so I tried links and it worked
instantly - very nice. I see that you put three lines into /etc/rc to
get this network autodetection working. I tried several other console
commands, and I have no problems to report there.

However, X worked for a little while, but then it crashed with an int
10h error. Have you seen this? I started an xterm and links, and
switched back to VT1 with the qemu console, then stopped X with
ctrl+c. When I tried to start it again, it showed the menu but crashed
when I moved the mouse. This is probably another Xvesa interaction.
Could this possibly be due to poor vesa emulation by qemu? Or could it
have something to do with grub? I will see if qemu will let you adjust
any of the device settings.

David