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Re: [Qemu-devel] it works !
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Richard Zidlicky |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] it works ! |
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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