Baslinux mailing list

[t.maiden AT att.net]

I downloaded the DOS version of BL 3.4.  Using a slightly altered version of the .bat file provided on the QEMU Windows site, it kept saying this was not a bootable image.  I then tried this:

 

qemu -kernel zimage -append "root=/dev/hda rw" -hda fs.img

but it couldn't find the bios.bin and vgabios.bin so I modified it like this

 

qemu -L . -m 128 -kernel zimage -append "root=/dev/hda rw" -hda fs.img

 

but this now hangs the computer, I can't stop the program and had to do a reset.  I accidently started it again so after I send this email I will have to do another reset.  I will look at all this as a experiment that didn't come out the way I wanted.  Maybe I can get BL to boot off the floppies in QEMU but as I can't make the floppies on my PC that will have to wait...

> -------------- Original message from "David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>: -------------- 
>
>
> > 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote: 
> > 
> > > I believe QEMU is able to boot Linux kernels. So step one is 
> > > possible. Can QEMU tell the kernel (via a parameter?) to use 
> > > a particular filesystem image? ...namely fs.img 
> > 
> > It should be able to. According to the documentation, addition of the 
> > '-hda filename' option to the qemu command line will set up a virtual 
> > hard disk from the contents of filename. And the '-append options' 
> > option will allow you to pass options to the Linux kernel. So, at 
> > least in theory we should be able to boot BL3 with something like 
> > this: 
> > 
> > qemu -kernel zimage -append "root=/dev/hda rw" -hda fs.img 
> > 
> > > > does it maybe only work o
> n compressed kernels? 
> > > 
> > > zimage kernels are compressed too. But that shouldn't be 
> > > an issue. Kernels unzip themselves. 
> > 
> > Someone, please try the above command line with fs.img and zimage. 
> > Then try replacing zimage with a bzImage, e.g. the bzimage.big add-on 
> > kernel. When I tried this, the zimage boot process froze before 
> > Uncompressing Linux... but the bzImage booted correctly. 
> > 
> > This might be a bug in qemu. 
> > 
> > David 
> > _______________________________________________ 
> > BasLinux mailing list 
> > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/baslinux