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I am trying to start a project involving ARM and Fedora. I read the
page <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM</a>, and downloaded
the file <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fedora.roving-it.com/rootfs-f15-sfp-alpha1.tar.bz2">http://fedora.roving-it.com/rootfs-f15-sfp-alpha1.tar.bz2</a>
which was labeled as "<a
href="http://fedora.roving-it.com/rootfs-f15-sfp-alpha1.tar.bz2"
class="external text">Fedora 15 Alpha 1 release for ARMv5tel</a>".
I am still waiting for an ARM board, so I installed qemu-system-arm
in Fedora 16 x86_64. After reading
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/HowToQemu">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/HowToQemu</a>, I
prepared an ext3 filesystem image, unzipped the downloaded file into
it, and attempted to boot with the following command:<br>
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qemu-system-arm -m 256 -M versatilepb -kernel
boot/vmlinuz-2.6.41.6-1.fc15.armv5tel -initrd
boot/initramfs-2.6.41.6-1.fc15.armv5tel.img -hda fedora-15-arm.img
-net nic -net user -append "console=ttyS0 root=LABEL=rootfs rw"<br>
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No matter how many variations of this I try, I get a black screen in
the qemu video console. On the qemu serial console, I get
"Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.", and no further
output. The qemu-system-arm process gets stuck at 100% CPU.<br>
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Other options for -M either behave the same, or do not even display
the "Uncompressing..." message.<br>
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I do not get enough information to even guess whether the kernel
will see the hard disk image or not.<br>
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What is exactly what I am doing wrong? Did I download the wrong
image?<br>
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