On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Fabian Greffrath <fab...@greffrath.com> wrote: > Am Montag, den 08.12.2014, 11:03 -0500 schrieb John Snow: >> If manually installing a bootable grub sounds gross, [...] > > Actually, this turns out not to be necessary at all. After all, GRUB > Invaders is a multiboot-compliant kernel game and as such can be loaded > directly by means of qemu's -kernel parameter. Thus, the "run" script > would look like this: > > qemu-system-i386 -kernel invaders.exec > > Please find the kernel image attached. It is built from the Debian > sources found here: > > https://packages.qa.debian.org/i/invaders.html > > Hope this helps. If there are any further questions, please do not > hesitate to ask me. > > - Fabian > > PS: I am a bit shocked by the fact how complicated it is to install GRUB > on a disk image. And, John, even if the approach you outlined worked, I > guess GRUB will find its device.map puzzled when it will get rebooted > from inside an image file instead of an actual hard-drive partition the > next time.
Thanks! Stefan
