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On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> I've got a 32-bit QEMU Gentoo guest on my machine. For some reason, |
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> it comes up readonly, and other partitions aren't being mounted. |
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> Unfortunately, the initial messages flash by so quickly I can't read |
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> them to get an idea of what's going wrong. Since /usr isn't mounted, |
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> "less" isn't available. I fired up busybox, and ran "dmesg | less". |
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> There was no hint in the output about what went wrong. |
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> If nothing else, is there a way to greatly slow down the QEMU boot |
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> process so I can at least read the error messages, and have something to |
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> work with? |
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> -- |
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> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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> Run qemu under screen with the flag -curses. Then scroll the screen up |
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like so: |
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# screen |
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# qemu -curses myimage.qcow2 |
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Then use Ctrl-a ESC to enter scroll mode. PageUP will take you to the |
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kernel log when vm starts. |
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Regards, |
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Kfir |