On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:54:00 +0100 Giovanni Bechis <giova...@openbsd.org> wrote:
> On 03/09/12 12:17, Brett wrote: > > OpenSUSE will still not run, even with -m 512 (or -m 800 which I tried as > > well). It was pretty sluggish through qemu anyway, so no big loss. In case > > anyone cares, it was stalling after the kernel loaded (the popup box with > > "kernel loading" message, before dmesg came up), with terminal message > > "MP-BIOS bug 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC." > > > I think the parameter "no_timer_check" should be passed to the kernel to > fix it. > Cheers > Giovanni > Hi, That did not work, but on option screen, selecting f4[kernel version]>safe mode; F3[graphics]>vesa; installer option; then adding the command line option noapic worked. OpenSUSE 11.4 did not require noapic to be manually added before, but with this version of Qemu it does. Brett.
