On 09/27/2017 12:42 PM, Reco wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 04:32:34PM +0000, 慕 冬亮 wrote:
>>
>> On 09/22/2017 04:02 PM, Reco wrote:
>>> <dm5pr12mb190060f6a3633e658f56d98fbc...@dm5pr12mb1900.namprd12.prod.outlook.com>
>>>
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 07:07:28PM +0000, 慕 冬亮 wrote:
>>>> qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel /boot/vmlinuz-4.12.0-1-amd64 -hda
>>>> qemu-stretch.img -append "root=/dev/sda1 single"
>> One small problem I have modified, sda1 => sda.
>> There is no any partition in image file.
>>>> However, the result shows that "VFS: unable to mount root fs".
>>> And that's exactly how it should be. I'm not sure about jessie's kernel,
>>> but stretch one has ext support built as a module (CONFIG_EXT4_FS=m).
>>>
>>> Meaning - if you want to boot from ext2/ext4 filesystem you'll need
>>> initrd. This qemu invocation does not supply one.
>> I tried the following command, that uses the default initrd in /boot,
>> but dead loop "floopy error -5 while reading block 0"
>>
>> qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel /boot/vmlinuz-4.12.0-1-amd64 -initrd
>> /boot/initrd.img-4.12.0-1-amd64 -hda qemu-stretch.img -append
>> "root=/dev/sda single"
> There is other thread at this mailllist that also shows some curious
> breakage of stock Debian initrd if it's forced to boot from
> non-partitioned drive.
>
> My gut feeling is you can not force it to work unless you rebuild
> initrd.
>
>
>>>> I learn the method from the following website:
>>>>
>>>> https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2017/01/16/setting-up-qemu-kvm-for-kernel-development/
>>> I'm genuinely surprised that such method worked for them.
>> I have learned how to use busybox as basic environment.
>> Is that any tutorial to show how to make debian debootstrap image as
>> basic environment?
> apt-get install vmdebootstrap
>
> man vmdebootstrap -- search for SYNOPSIS
This works. Thanks.
> Reco
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