[Qemu-devel] Re: POST failure (loop) with isapc and seabios

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:30:20PM +0100, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
> i386-softmmu/qemu -M isapc -bios pc-bios/bios.bin

Thanks for reporting this.

After compiling seabios with CONFIG_DEBUG_SERIAL set in src/config.h
and running:

qemu -M isapc -serial file:foo

I see:

Unable to unlock ram - bridge not found

SeaBIOS stores global variables in the f-segment.  This greatly
simplifies the code, but it does require the ability to write to the
f-segment.  Since the f-segment can't be unlocked in "isapc" mode, the
boot fails.

I'm not really sure what to do about this.  Maybe some kind of non-pci
method of unlocking the f-segment could be implemented.

Anthony, what do you think?

-Kevin