Re: [Qemu-devel] How to run qemu (i386) without hda image?

2007-01-31 Thread Neo Jia
On 1/31/07, Christian MICHON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/28/07, Neo Jia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > I notice that this would be a very newbie question. Hope you can point me out. > > I am going to simulate i386 arch. But I cannot run it just with initrd > and vmlinuz just like runnin

Re: [Qemu-devel] How to run qemu (i386) without hda image?

2007-01-31 Thread Christian MICHON
On 1/28/07, Neo Jia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi, I notice that this would be a very newbie question. Hope you can point me out. I am going to simulate i386 arch. But I cannot run it just with initrd and vmlinuz just like running it for mips arch. It always complained about missing the hda ima

Re: [Qemu-devel] How to run qemu (i386) without hda image?

2007-01-28 Thread Christian MICHON
On 1/28/07, Neo Jia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks. After removing "root=/dev/hda", I still get the following error messages. I think the kernel should be boot even without the fc3.img, right? not necessarily. if your kernel contains an initramfs, then it is self sufficient. Again, the boot

Re: [Qemu-devel] How to run qemu (i386) without hda image?

2007-01-28 Thread Neo Jia
On 1/28/07, Christian MICHON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: remove "root=/dev/hda". you may have not compiled block drivers as built-in, and fc3.img may not have the proper init files (which should be inside your initrd). Thanks. After removing "root=/dev/hda", I still get the following error messa

Re: [Qemu-devel] How to run qemu (i386) without hda image?

2007-01-28 Thread Christian MICHON
remove "root=/dev/hda". you may have not compiled block drivers as built-in, and fc3.img may not have the proper init files (which should be inside your initrd). On 1/28/07, Neo Jia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The following is the command line i used qemu -kernel vmlinuz-2.6.20-rc6 -initrd init

Re: [Qemu-devel] How to run qemu (i386) without hda image?

2007-01-28 Thread Neo Jia
The following is the command line i used qemu -kernel vmlinuz-2.6.20-rc6 -initrd initrd-2.6.20-rc6.img -hda fc3.img -nographic -append console=ttyS0 root=/dev/hda The following is the error message ... Could not configure '/dev/rtc' to have a 1024 Hz timer. This is not a fatal error, but for be

Re: [Qemu-devel] How to run qemu (i386) without hda image?

2007-01-28 Thread Christian MICHON
one possibility is to include your kernel and initrd inside a bootable iso (mkisofs and isolinux are your friends: look at the man pages for numerous solutions). the kernel panic could be actually missing block drivers or your root parameter is wrong. On 1/28/07, Neo Jia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

[Qemu-devel] How to run qemu (i386) without hda image?

2007-01-28 Thread Neo Jia
hi, I notice that this would be a very newbie question. Hope you can point me out. I am going to simulate i386 arch. But I cannot run it just with initrd and vmlinuz just like running it for mips arch. It always complained about missing the hda image file. When I applied the hda.img file, the ke