Hi. On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 06:58:13PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i wrote: > > > Shouldn't there be a bootloader installed in debian_mips32b.img ? > > Reco wrote: > > No. One of the oddities of QEMU's malta that nobody was able to > > write a > > working bootloader for it. OP is doing it the only way that's > > possible. > > And he has luck to already have found somebody who has seen a MIPS > more recently than 20 years ago. > > Would my idea to install from ISO work at all ? > (I have a debian-7.4.0-mips-netinst.iso but feel not really in the > mood > for trying what would happen.)
$ qemu-system-mips -m 2048 -nographic -cdrom /tmp/debian-7.4.0-mips-netinst.iso -boot d qemu-system-mips: Could not load MIPS bios 'mips_bios.bin', and no -kernel argument was specified Of course if you happen to have that magic mips_bios.bin lying around - it may even boot. Or not. Even the installation guide mentions TFTP as a preferred way to install Debian on MIPS. Also, that 'iso' is no way a conventional ISO9660 or UDF image: $ file -sL /tmp/debian-7.4.0-mips-netinst.iso /tmp/debian-7.4.0-mips-netinst.iso: SGI disk label (volume header) [1] https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/mipsel/ch02s01.html.en PS I should be more careful with e-mail headers. Reco
