Re: Can we boot from CD-ROM ISO for QEMU MIPS systems?

2019-11-19 Thread john doe
On 11/19/2019 10:49 PM, Jun Sun wrote: > Thanks for the pointer, John. I tried that before (btw. see my comments > under "monkey-jsun" name at the end. ;0) > > The CD-ROM part does not work at all. The net installer still goes out to > the network and fetch the latest release and install. > > To

Re: Can we boot from CD-ROM ISO for QEMU MIPS systems?

2019-11-19 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 09:18:33PM -0800, Jun Sun wrote: > After some internet searching, it seems pretty clear that QEMU/mips cannot > boot from debian CD. I hope anyone can prove that I'm wrong here. > > Lacking of booting from CD-ROM, the next fancy idea I can think of is to > set up the host

Re: Can we boot from CD-ROM ISO for QEMU MIPS systems?

2019-11-19 Thread Jun Sun
After some internet searching, it seems pretty clear that QEMU/mips cannot boot from debian CD. I hope anyone can prove that I'm wrong here. Lacking of booting from CD-ROM, the next fancy idea I can think of is to set up the host so that it fakes to the network installer, providing files requeste

Re: Can we boot from CD-ROM ISO for QEMU MIPS systems?

2019-11-19 Thread Jun Sun
Thanks for the pointer, John. I tried that before (btw. see my comments under "monkey-jsun" name at the end. ;0) The CD-ROM part does not work at all. The net installer still goes out to the network and fetch the latest release and install. To prove my points, I ran with debian 10.2 net install

Re: Can we boot from CD-ROM ISO for QEMU MIPS systems?

2019-11-17 Thread john doe
On 11/16/2019 6:28 PM, Jun Sun wrote: > Obviously this method works for x86_64 and i386, probably because they have > bios. > > I tried the obvious combinations on MIPS with no luck so far > >- add "-boot d" option; and >- also supply the kernel/initrd in the hope they might recognize "-boo

Can we boot from CD-ROM ISO for QEMU MIPS systems?

2019-11-16 Thread Jun Sun
Obviously this method works for x86_64 and i386, probably because they have bios. I tried the obvious combinations on MIPS with no luck so far - add "-boot d" option; and - also supply the kernel/initrd in the hope they might recognize "-boot d" and read from CD-ROM Just want to check t