qemu bugs with initramfs (thinks initramfs is an initrd)

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Monday 23 April 2007 03:15, Matthew Franz wrote:
> I know this is isn't a busybox issue but I imagine some folks on the
> list are using qemu for testing/debugging.
> 
> Anyone else seen this before with qemu
> 
> checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (bad gzip magic numbers);
> looks like an initrd
> 
> and then boot hangs...
> 
> The exact same initramfs and kernel on real hardware (booted with
> pxelinux) works just fine...

I have an image which hangs on qemu but boots just fine in virtualbox
(www.virtualbox.org). It said to be qemu derived and GPLed.
Give it ia try. If it works, then it's probably qemu problem/bug.

(You will need a small program to convert raw disk image
into vbox's one. Google for it).
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