Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-system-ppc: blank screen

[Tero Kaarlela]

Tilman Sauerbeck wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm trying to run qemu-system-ppc on a x86 box (Linux 2.6.12, gcc
> 3.4.3), but the SDL window that qemu opens just stays black, there's no
> output at all (nothing on stdout either).
>
> For example, I tried to run qemu-system-ppc with the linux-ppc image
> from freeoszoo.org.
> I launched qemu like this:
>
> qemu-system-ppc -prep -kernel zImage.prep linux-ppc.img 
>
>  
If you are using current CVS try qemu-system-ppc -M prep -kernel 
zImage.prep linux-ppc.img

BTW in order to get that image to boot you need patch for ide.c that Jim 
C Brown posted here few days ago.
and that image has french keyb layout so do 'loadkeys' us when you get 
it to boot.



Tero