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When trying to boot the two floppy version of BL in QEMU, try a command 
something like this:

START qemu.exe -L . -m 128 -fda //./a: -boot a -soundhw sb16 -localtime

Note the way the param for -fda is specified.  This is a variation on the way 
to boot directly from a CD drive.  This specifies a floppy boot from the a: 
device.  I tried this and it worked great for the boot and load.  I was able 
to swap floppies no problem, didn't have to break out and edit files, etc.  
The only problem I had, and I'm fairly sure this may have been a problem 
unrelated to the QEMU process, is when I had the ROOT prompt up, I typed 
STARTX and the shell came back saying STARTX not found.  It couldn't find 
STARTXT either.  Maybe part of the download or the copy to floppy 2 was bad.  
Is the shell and busybox on floppy 1?  Could the load of floppy 2 failed 
without giving any warnings?  (If this email has come thru as a HTML please 
let me know so that I can tell ATT Worldnet their software is junk.)  Thanks.
-------------- Original message from t.maiden AT att.net: -------------- 


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