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  • From: t.maiden AT att.net
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL 3.40 in qemu image
  • Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:52:36 +0000

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>:
--------------


> 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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