Re: [Qemu-devel] Custom floppy image not booting, hanging at ramdisk...

[Damien Mascord]

Hi again,

Sorry to top post, just wanted to know if anyone has had similar experiences to 
this?

If not, can someone help me debug the issue (bug?) with qemu here?

Damien Mascord wrote:
> Heya guys,
> 
> I am trying to create my own uclibc/busybox floppy bootdisk, and am running 
> into an issue with the expansion of the RAMDISK... the
> CPU shoots up to 100% and even leaving it overnight, it never recovers from 
> that situation.
> 
> I have tried it under qemu 0.7.2 and 0.8.0 in linux and windows, and all fail 
> to boot the image, where as vmware (and/or native)
> boot the disk fine, and goes correctly to the "Please press Enter to activate 
> this console".
> 
> I am using the command line:
> 
> qemu -fda floppy.img -boot a
> 
> And it loads up the kernel, no problem, reaching the ramdisk stage, and then 
> it dies at the following:
> 
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 680
> 
> If anyone wants a crack at this, the image can be found at 
> http://tusker.sg/floppy.img
> 
> How would I go about debugging this issue?
> 
> Cheers in advance,
> 
> Damien
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