Hi, Ian, I tried several variations with different DTBs, and nothing worked. I also tried your example, with no difference. All I get is an empty console.
My initrd.gz is a symlink to initrd.img-3.16.0-4-armmp and vmlinuz is a symlink to vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-armmp, which I think are the correct files. Is my problem possibly that I'm trying to upgrade an existing ARM installation instead of installing new? But even if it were, I would expect to see *something* to indicate a boot failure. Totally perplexing! Jerry On 11/14/2016 1:49 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sun, 2016-11-13 at 21:39 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> Boot only gave me an empty window. No messages, nothing. I had to >> force close the machine. > > You need the DTB too. /usr/lib/linux-image-3.16.0-4-armmp should > contain vexpress-v2p-ca9.dtb which seems like the one you want (but > there are others, take a look and try to match to your hardware). > > Pass the dtb to qemu with -dtb as I showed yesterday. > > For h/w firmware which may not support passing a dtb you can also > append it to the vmlinuz. > >> According to >> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel/ARMMP#fnref-ab595c5be7b24964461cfb9d5a876e5f0de4d301, >> it is unknown whether the armmp kernel supports Versatile Express or >> not. > > Not it isn't, those columns are headed "LPAE" and "Full Debian > Installer Support". > >> From my tries, it looks like it does not. > > I tried this yesterday and reported to you 2 qemu command lines which I > had used. It does work. > > Ian. > > >
