Re: [Qemu-discuss] How to boot the ARM server ISO on QEMU ... and hardware ??

[Ciro Santilli]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 5:11 PM Dennis Clarke <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 1/14/19 11:41 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 16:15, Ciro Santilli <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> >> I just wonder, is it really possible that a system misconfiguration
> >> prevented the ISO from being read at all, given that I do see the
> >> start of the installer, and it only fails after a few steps
> >> (language selection)?
> >
> > Hmm, if you see part of the installer image then maybe something
> > else is going wrong. I was expecting the issue to be that the
> > guest didn't get a block device with the image at all...
> >
>
> Perhaps slightly off topic but is there really a Debian ARM type install
> image or is it really a "Linaro" type modified distro?  I only ask
> because I have an ASUS Tinkerboard running and it looks like Debian
> but really seems to be something slightly weird and not Debian.
> If that makes any sense.
>
>
Hmmm, weird how? The Debian project officially maintains an ARM port:
https://www.debian.org/ports/


> Has anyone tried off the shelf Debian ARM on both Qemu and real
> hardware and seen both work as expected?
>
>
I've tried debian-9.6.0-arm64-xfce-CD-1.iso now and it fails in the exact
same way.


> Dennis
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