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I will try it when I get home tonight.  I am at the community college right 
now and I don't have the datasets here with me.  Thanks.  (If this email is 
HTML please let me know so I can yell at my ISP about their lousy webmail 
software)

-------------- Original message from James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>: 
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> On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, t.maiden AT att.net wrote: 
> 
> > qemu -kernel zimage -append "root=/dev/hda rw" -hda fs.img 
> 
> As David mentioned, it won't work with zimage. He tried it and it 
> wouldn't boot, and I duplicated his results by trying it on my system. 
> However, if you replace zimage with bzimage (having downloaded Steven's 
> alternate kernel, bzimage.big and renamed it to bzimage), the system will 
> boot with those parameters. David was able to get it to boot like this, 
> and I duplicated his results. So, download the bzimage.big kernel, rename 
> it bzimage, and issue 
> 
> qemu -kernel bzimage -append "root=/dev/hda rw" -hda fs.img 
> 
> and I think you're going to see that it will boot you into the 20MB looped 
> filesystem Steven provides. It worked here and also worked for David. 
> For some reason qemu seems to require a bzimage to boot using the -kernel 
> option, and it won't boot using a zimage with that option. 
> 
> You'll gather that I confirmed your results, David. 
> 
> James 
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