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Re: [Qemu-devel] it works !


From: Richard Zidlicky
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] it works !
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 13:18:04 +0100
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On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:03:08AM +0100, Jean-Michel POURE wrote:
> Le jeudi 25 Mars 2004 20:56, address@hidden a écrit :
> > Here is a little trick to allow "already installed" partitions to boot.
> 
> Thanks for the info. I did a normal installation on SuSE 8.2 too and booted 
> in 
> Qemu without problem. But it takes a long time. Wouldn't it be easier to 
> install GNU/Linux directly in qemu using a CD-ROM installer?
> 
> Installers for Mandrake 10, Mandrake 9.x, RedHat 9.x or even Fedora RC-2 are 
> derived from a RedHat base. In all cases, installation in text mode fails 
> because of CD-ROM recognition problems (see my screenshots on 
> http://am.xs4all.nl/phpwiki/index.php/Qemu).
> 
> Is there a way of loading the CDROM module manually, with IRQ and hardware 
> address (like it is the case for the "ne" network driver)?

there are various kernel parameters that might help. From my head I recall
 ideX=base,ctrl,irq
 hdX=ide-cd|ide-scsi
Some docs are directly in the kernel source.

Richard




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