On 11/23/2016 03:43 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 04:56:03PM +0000, Clint Adams wrote: >> I'm trying to install Debian within qemu-system-ppc64 using >> debian-stretch-DI-alpha8-ppc64el-netinst.iso >> >> Attempting to make a filesystem (either ext4 or btrfs) fails >> and dmesg indicates that signal 4 has been caught. >> >> Is there a QEMU option I'm missing? > > Might be easier to answer if you said which options you used. > > Running qemu-system-ppc64 -cpu POWER8 (version 1:2.7+dfsg-3+b1) did not > fail for me using debian-testing-ppc64el-netinst.iso > > Trying with debian-stretch-DI-alpha8-ppc64el-netinst.iso worked fine too.
I just tested also, and didn't find any issue. What is your host architecture?
