From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DmvQq-0005OZ-9o for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 11:21:56 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DmvQo-0005No-Do for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 11:21:55 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DmvKw-0002ag-7X for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 11:15:50 -0400 Received: from [128.8.10.163] (helo=po1.wam.umd.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dmuwh-0004Y7-H4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:50:47 -0400 Received: from jbrown.mylinuxbox.org (jma-box.student.umd.edu [129.2.237.180]) by po1.wam.umd.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j5REkMRu001429 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:46:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:46:08 -0400 From: "Jim C. Brown" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] What happened to linuxppc-img from Freeoszoo Message-ID: <20050627144608.GA16320@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org > > I tried to boot linuxppc image from freeoszoo with QemuCVS. kernel > > boots ok but then I get errors that it cant read filesystem from dev hda. > > Also tried with 0.7.0 and it freezes at: Freeing unused kernel memory > > Late last year, QEMU reworked the disk geometry, and that can confuse old > disk images. The images expect an old style and the newer qemu offers a > different geometry. No, the geometry reported by 0.7.0 (which sees the disk properly and can mount partition) and CVS (which can't see the partition table) are the same. For the record, images I've used since qemu 0.5.2 still work fine with CVS. (I only use raw images though.) > qemu now more closely does what a real system does. But I think somebody in > the qemu user forum came across a situation where it wasn't true. Don't > remember the details, but I think it was for 512m sizes. I don't remember > well, so I could be wrong. Anyway, it works better now than it did before. > Actually, the reason that linux-ppc.img broke was due to a hack for darwin/ppc. I have yet to determine why (i'm not that familiar with PPC or IDE) but the folllowing patch will fix it. I'm not sure why this small change caused things to break in the first place. --- ide.c.old Sun Jun 26 23:13:40 2005 +++ ide.c Sun Jun 26 23:13:25 2005 @@ -1491,7 +1491,7 @@ #ifdef TARGET_PPC /* XXX: currently a workaround for Darwin/PPC. Need to check the IDE spec to see if it is correct */ - ide_set_signature(s); + //ide_set_signature(s); #endif break; default: -- Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty. Infinite precision begets infinite perfection.