Hello Connor! On 6/30/20 4:07 PM, Connor McLaughlan wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 3:53 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: >> Might be a partioning issue as it seems GRUB works fine when booting >> from CD, doesn't it? >> >> In any case, it should be possible to boot kernel and initrd of the >> installed system directly using QEMU, bypassing GRUB. >> > > Can you please tell me how would i execute this bypassing of GRUB? > > I am using a standard partioning scheme with three partitions: > > 1. /boot ext2 500mb (default size) > 2. / ext4 60GB > 3. swap 4GB
You can specify both kernel and initrd on the command line using "-kernel" and "-initrd" respectively. You just need to extract them from the virtual machine disk image. Adria -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913