Hello, first time here, please be patient. I apologise asking this question here, but the Qemu user forum is currently down and the qemu-devel list is aimed at developers only.
I have converted the -Current Miniroot fs to a proper image on a Linux host, made some minor corrections to ftstab and inittab, transferred it to a flash drive and tried to boot it on a Windows host with this line: qemu-system-arm.exe -drive file=slackware-arm-root,index=0,media=disk -M versatilepb -m 256 -usb -k en-gb but I got the error: "Kernel image must be specified". So I downloaded zImage-versatile and initrd-versatile.gz and added this : -kernel zImage-versatile -initrd initrd-versatile.gz -append "root=/dev/sda1 rootfs=ext2" and It works fine. Why does qemu-system-arm need a kernel and a initrd? Is it possible to boot an ARM image directly? Is this a limitation of the ARM Architecture or of the volatile board emulation or of qemu-system-arm altogether? Then I'd have some more n00b questions but I'll ask them later. Thank you -- Ottavio A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? _______________________________________________ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack