Debian Versatile Express under QEMU
Hi, all,
I'm missing something here, and I don't know what it is. I'm trying to
get Debian's Versatile Express ARM version running under qemu. What I
did was:
Download initrd.gz and vmlinux-3.2.0-4-vexpress from
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-armhf/current/images/vexpress/netboot/
(and renamed the former to initrd.install.gz).
I created a 4GB raw QEMU disk image:
qemu-img -f raw armhf.img 4G
I then ran the following command:
qemu-system-arm -M vexpress-a9 -m 512M -kernel vmlinuz -initrd
initrd.install.gz -sd armhf.img -append "root=/dev/ram" -no-reboot
Taking all of the defaults (except user and password, obviously), the
system installed with no problems.
I mounted the resulting disk and it looks good. I copied
initrd.img-3.2.0.4-vexpress from the first partition on the disk to my
working directory and gzipped it, with a symlink from initrd.gz.
vmlinux-3.2.0-4-vexpress is the same as what I downloaded.
Everything up to this point looked good. However, when I try to boot
the image with:
qemu-system-arm -M vexpress-a9 -m 512M -kernel vmlinuz -initrd initrd.gz
-sd armhf.img -append "root=/dev/mmcblk0p2"
it fails.
It starts out in my terminal with two messages to stderr:
l2x0_priv_write: Bad offset 900
l2x0_priv_write: Bad offset 904
Don't know whether these are pertinent or not.
The system tries to boot; in the console window, the last few lines are:
[ 0.859520] rtc-pl031 mb:rtc: setting system clock to 2014-01-22
02:00:39 UTC (1390356039)
[ 0.860180] Initializing network drop monitor service
[ 0.895033] mmc0: host does not support reading read-only switch.
assuming write-enable.
[ 0.895819] mmc0: new SDHC card at address 4567
[ 0.907223] input: AT Raw Set 2 keyboard as
/devices/mb:kmi0/serio0/input/input0
[ 0.910420] mmcblk0: mmc0:4567 QEMU! 4.00 GiB
[ 0.940223] mmcblk0: p1 p2 p3 < p5 >
[ 0.952258] List of all partitions:
[ 0.952648] b300 4194304 mmcblk0 driver: mmcblk
[ 0.953130] b301 229376 mmcblk0p1
00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
[ 0.953715] b302 3727360 mmcblk0p2
00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
[ 0.954218] b303 1 mmcblk0p3
00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
[ 0.954602] b305 234496 mmcblk0p5
00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
[ 0.955077] No filesystem could mount root, tried:
[ 0.955511] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs
on unknown-block(179,2)
[ 0.957767] [<80013f40>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xe0) from
[<8029d378>] (panic+0x50/0x190)
[ 0.958300] [<8029d378>] (panic+0x50/0x190) from [<803a0cb0>]
(mount_block_root+0x234/0x284)
[ 0.958776] [<803a0cb0>] (mount_block_root+0x234/0x284) from
[<803a0e84>] (prepare_namespace+0x124/0x184)
[ 0.959076] [<803a0e84>] (prepare_namespace+0x124/0x184) from
[<803a0940>] (kernel_init+0x170/0x1a8)
[ 0.959532] [<803a0940>] (kernel_init+0x170/0x1a8) from [<8000e798>]
(kernel_thread_exit+0x0/0x8)
So although mmcblk0p2 is available, it looks like the system can't mount
it for some reason.
Can anyone tell me what I'm missing?
TIA,
Jerry
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