[fedora-arm] Unable to boot 3.3.6-3.fc17.armv5tel with qemu-system-arm

[Dennis Gilmore]

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On Tue, 22 May 2012 14:54:59 -0500
Alex Villací­s Lasso <a_villacis at palosanto.com> wrote:

> I am currently able to boot kernel-3.3.4-3.fc17.armv5tel with the
> following qemu commandline:
> 
> [palosanto at virthost fedora-17]$ KERNELVER=3.3.4-3.fc17.armv5tel
> [palosanto at virthost
> fedora-17]$ /home/palosanto/programa/qemu-build/arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm
> -nographic -m 256  -M versatilepb -kernel boot/vmlinuz-$KERNELVER
> -initrd boot/initramfs-$KERNELVER.img -append "root=LABEL=rootfs
> console=ttyAMA0 audit=0" -hda fedora-17-arm.vmdk
> 
> If I just replace KERNELVER to 3.3.6-3.fc17.armv5tel , the boot
> process just hangs.
> 
> If I specify -M vexpress-a9, I can sort of boot the kernel. However
> no block device matching the disk image appears anywhere, so the boot
> process drops to an debug shell, like this:

use -sd for your disk not -hda and you have to use -M vexpress-a9

so something like 

/home/palosanto/programa/qemu-build/arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm
- -nographic -m 256  -M versatilepb -kernel boot/vmlinuz-$KERNELVER
- -initrd boot/initramfs-$KERNELVER.img -append "root=LABEL=rootfs 
console=ttyAMA0 audit=0" -sd fedora-17-arm.vmdk -M vexpress-a9 


should work it does with the qemu binarries shipped in Fedora 17

Dennis
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