Thanks Peter for your help. 1) do you know where i can find such compiled kernel, and their corresponding machine type ?
2) regarding sanity check, this might only be the keyboard that is not configured correctly: - typing "Ctrl+Alt+3" drives me to QEMU 2.1.2 monitor where keyboards works. Is there some log/place i should look for to see if keyboard is working or not ? Thanks, Benoit. On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:50 PM, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > On 30 March 2015 at 08:24, benoit ROUSSELLE <brousse...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > i am running a debian8 amd64 machine and i would like to emulate an: > > armhf machine with kernel > 3.8 (docker testing) > > > > following this: https://gist.github.com/bdsatish/7476239 > > i succeed to have a debian7 (3.2 kernel) working fine, but kernel is too > > old. It seems kernel cannot be updated from that point. > > > > I have tried the same approach with debian8: > > netboot install, with a vexpress machine (-M vexpress-a9 -cpu cortex-a9) > : > > does not start at all. > > May be because vexpress kernel does not exist in installer for debian8. > > > > I am pretty new to arm, and i don't know what is the meaning/relation > > between vepxress types of machines and arm different architectures. > > Basically, for ARM you must use a kernel that has been > compiled with support for the machine type you're trying to boot > it on. Otherwise you will typically find that it does not boot > at all, with no diagnostics. > > > my last try with ubuntu trusty armhf port, was a bit better, as machine > > starts to boot but freeze when asking the first question at installation > > time: > > qemu-system-arm -m 1024M -sd armdisk.img -M vexpress-a9 -cpu cortex-a9 > > -kernel ./netboot/vmlinuz -initrd ./netboot/initrd.gz -append > > "root=/dev/ram" -no-reboot > > If it manages to at least boot then you've got the basic > config more or less right. I can't shed any light on why > it's hanging though. Sanity check: this isn't just "keyboard > and mouse not configured so you can't enter anything at > the question", is it? > > -- PMM >
