[Qemu-devel] Recent BIOS breaks SYSLINUX with -nographic

[Ed Swierk]

I'm attempting to boot a Linux disk image with the SYSLINUX boot
loader using the -nographic option. On the latest qemu CVS, the boot
loader hangs before printing "Ready" and booting the kernel. But if I
use the same version of qemu with the BIOS from 0.8.2, it boots just
fine.

For a simple test case, grab this Fedora boot disk:

 http://xenon.stanford.edu/~eswierk/misc/fc6-diskboot-serial.img.bz2

which I've modified to redirect output to the serial port, and run:

 qemu -hda fc6-diskboot-serial.img -nographic

Any clues would be appreciated.

--Ed