Re: Debian 8.5.0 iso on qemu vm

["Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 02:20:42PM +0200, Frederic Bonnard wrote:
> Hi,
> anyone having success to boot the latest Jessie netinst iso with a qemu vm ?
> 
> iso : http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.5.0/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-8.5.0-powerpc-netinst.iso
> cli : qemu-system-ppc -m 1024 -nographic -nodefaults -serial mon:stdio -hda
> disk.img -cdrom debian-8.5.0-powerpc-netinst.iso -boot d
> 
> Is there some trick I missed ?
> I get stuck after the kernel says "returning from prom_init"
> Thanks,

I think it is a console problem.

Interestingly, if you don't use -nographic, it works fine with the
emulated graphical console.

And yes it is a console problem.  Doing this works:

boot: install console=ttyPZ0

Then it works fine.

I found that here: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/PowerPC/qemu

-- 
Len Sorensen