Re: [9fans] plan9 on qemu problems...

[jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com]

I found the Win32 Qemu to be very flakey, sometimes it would work,
sometimes hang as you describe. It was downloaded, not compiled from
scratch. I found some problems by going into the monitor (ctrl-alt-2)
and dumping the instruction stream at the current pc (x/10i $eip)
then using acid on the kernel binary to see where it was looping
(e.g. in the ne2000 driver if you don't have the 'nodummyrr' option).

--jim

On Tue Dec 28 13:22:19 EST 2004, joseph.stewart@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm running plan9 on qemu under win32 (compiled with MINGW).
> 
> I applied the patches suggested in this list several days ago
> (thanks!), and booted from CD and installed into a HD image... all
> seemed fine until trying to reboot into the newly created HD image.
> 
> I then see:
> 
> dev A0 port 1F0 config 0040 capabilities 0300 mwdma 0000 udma 201F
> dev A0 port 170 config 85C0 capabilities 0200 mwdma 0103
> 
> and qemu seems to "go to sleep" (meaning plan9 never starts up, no
> error messages, etc).
> 
> Here's the line I start qemu up with:
> 
> qemu -L bios -hda p9hd.img
> 
> Anyone else having problems like this?
> 
> What other debug info might I provide that would help fix this?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -joe
> 
> -- 
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