qemu fails to boot recent releases of Fedora Core with the -kernel/-initrd options, since the kernel is large enough to overrun the space allocated to it by qemu's built-in bootloader.
The attached patch simply moves the base address of the initrd to a higher location, which allows sufficient space for a larger kernel. Ideally qemu would figure out where to load the initrd based on the size of the kernel, but I hope this patch is simple enough to solve the problem for now. --Ed
diff -burN qemu-0.7.2.orig/hw/pc.c qemu-0.7.2/hw/pc.c --- qemu-0.7.2.orig/hw/pc.c 2005-09-04 17:11:31.000000000 +0000 +++ qemu-0.7.2/hw/pc.c 2005-11-22 20:39:29.000000000 +0000 @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ #define LINUX_BOOT_FILENAME "linux_boot.bin" #define KERNEL_LOAD_ADDR 0x00100000 -#define INITRD_LOAD_ADDR 0x00400000 +#define INITRD_LOAD_ADDR 0x00600000 #define KERNEL_PARAMS_ADDR 0x00090000 #define KERNEL_CMDLINE_ADDR 0x00099000
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