Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu on 2.6.0-rc1

[J. Mayer]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 23:31, Rutger Nijlunsing wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I try to run qemu-fast on Linux kernel 2.6.0-rc1. I could not find the
> things which I should change in the documentation:
....
> After recompiling the kernel, both qemu-fast and qemu refuses to boot
> this kernel:
> 
> qemu -nographic -hda linux.img -kernel ../linux-qemu/arch/i386/boot/bzImage 
> -append "root=/dev/hda ide2=noprobe ide3=noprobe ide4=noprobe ide5=noprobe"
> 
> ...boots not bzImage, but the kernel which resides in the image file
> linux.img.

The fact is qemu -kernel relies on the fact that the kernel has a
integrated bootloader at the start of the bzImage. This has been
suppressed in 2.6 kernels, so you should install your kernel inside a
loop device install a MBR at the start of this device. You can use lilo
to do this.

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