Re: [Qemu-devel] Maintainers, please tell us how to boot your machines!

[Richard Henderson]

On 3/12/19 10:36 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>     = hw/alpha/dp264.c =
>     Richard Henderson <address@hidden> (maintainer:Alpha Machines)
Normally I'd use

http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/alpha/autobuilds/current-iso/
Extract /boot/gentoo.igz.
Decompress: gunzip < /boot/gentoo > gentoo.kernel

Irritatingly, I find their current kernel provokes a machine check.
I'll have to look into that.

So for convenience, I have cached a copy and a kernel at

http://people.linaro.org/~richard.henderson/alpha/vmlinux-smp.xz
http://people.linaro.org/~richard.henderson/alpha/gentoo.igz
http://people.linaro.org/~richard.henderson/alpha/install-alpha-minimal-20190312T021158Z.iso

Decompress the kernel.

Boot:

qemu-system-alpha -m 1G -nographic \
  -kernel vmlinux-smp -initrd gentoo.igz \
  -drive if=virtio,readonly,file=install-alpha-minimal-20190312T021158Z.iso \
  -append 'console=ttyS0 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc looptype=squashfs \
           loop=/image.squashfs cdroot'

will arrive at the livecd prompt.

Actual installation for gentoo additionally requires a disk onto which
to install and the gentoo stage3 image.  I usually provide the latter as a
third virtio device and untar directly from /dev/vdc.


r~