Re: [Qemu-discuss] Trouble getting ARM Linux kernel to boot

[Ezequiel Garcia]

Hi!

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Steven Frank <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is my first time using QEMU, so please bear with me.
>
> I am using a Mac OS X host to build the Linux 3.5 kernel for ARM, and trying 
> to boot it in QEMU 1.2.0.
>
> The kernel, to my surprise, built fine on my Mac using the arm-none-eabi-gcc 
> toolchain from MacPorts.  I'm using the versatile_defconfig, since that 
> turned up a lot when I was Googling how to do this.
>
> Then I try to boot my kernel in QEMU using this command line:
>
>         arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm -m 16 -M versatilepb -kernel 
> arch/arm/boot/zImage -serial stdio
>
> I don't have a rootfs yet -- I was hoping to just get as far as seeing the 
> kernel boot messages.
>
> It outputs this:
>
>         Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
>
> Then hangs, with an empty white window.  Nothing further appears to happen.
>


I had the same problem just yesterday. Try with older kernel 2.6.32 /
2.6.38 and let me know.

Also, what kernel config are you using?

Regards,
Ezequiel.