For anyone interested, to save the trouble of clicking the link to lists.debian.org in the original report, here is the full command which fails. Before executing, put a bootable diskette in the drive. sudo qemu-system-i386 -fda /dev/fd0 -vga std -boot a
If everything works as it should, the window for the qemu virtual system should resemble a bare PC booting from the boot diskette. Here the boot failed in three independent machines. Regards, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +1 360 639 0202 http://carnot.yi.org/ Bcc: peter at easthope. ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org