Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu problem (you might be my last resort)

[Stefan Kisdaroczi]

Hi,

Did you try to set "-L" ?
-L path  // set the directory for the BIOS and VGA BIOS

regards
kisda

Jim C. Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:10:16AM +0100, Robin Pfeifer wrote:
>
>>>On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 09:06:22PM +0100, Robin Pfeifer wrote:
>>>
>>>>When I start qemu with the following command:
>>>>
>>>>qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom -boot d -snapshot -m 256
>>>>
>>>>with any bootable CD in the drive, I only get a qemu window with the
>>>>tile 'qemu stopped'. I cannot get into the monitor by pressing ctrl +
>>>>alt + 2 or do anything else except ctrl + c in the terminal where I
>>>>started qemu to cancel it.
>>
>
> Out of curiosity, does it work if you use an iso image instead of /dev/cdrom?
>
> If you "-boot a" from a floppy disk image, will that work or does it have the
> same error? (You can download a FreeDOS boot disk if u don't have a way to
> get a bootable floppy disk image).
>
>
>>>>The command used to work perfectly with various versions of qemu, but
>>>>now doesn't anymore. I've tried CVS versions after 0.6.1 stopped
>>>>working, but to no avail.
>>>>
>>
>
> Does using older versions of qemu work? (Sorry if I'm asking questions that
> you have already answered but I don't remember the original email).
>
>
>>>>At first only my user ID had the problem, and root worked - but then I
>>>>tried the -m 350 parameter with root, too, (not thinking, at the time,
>>>>that it could be the cause of the problem) and since then, root hasn't
>>>>been able to use qemu anymore either.
>>
>>>if u add a new user, can that user use qemu (provided you don't try
>>
>>"-m 350") ?
>>
>>No, I tried that yesterday, but a new user gets the same error. Root
>>used not to get it when the user already did, but after using -m 350
>>with root, it no longer worked for root either.
>>
>
>
> This is the most confusing thing of all.
>

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