Re: booting rootfs with linux-image-vexpress in qemu 1.0~ from harddisk image
Marcus Osdoba <marcus.osdoba@googlemail.com> writes:
Hi,
> Hello Mailinglist,
>
> I'm not sure, if this is worth a bug report, but recnetly I tried to
> boot a multistrapped wheezy armhf system in qemu from
> squeeze-backports.
>
> The qemu command line included the -hda option but the vexpress kernel
> wasn't able to find /dev/sda or /dev/hda.
the vexpress qemu system doesn't support scsi/sata/pata/ afair (unlike
the real one).
>
> The system dropped to busybox command line and I didn't see an sda or
> hda device when runnign dmesg there.
>
> One should never draw conclusions in bug reports, but when browsing
> the kernel config posted for the original vexpress wish (#670462),
> there is an nfsrootfs configured in CMDLINE option. So I guess the
> requestor checked that with a rootfs over network but not from qemu's
> local harddisk?!
you can try initrd+qemu sd/mmc emulation.
Arnaud
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