Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu/target-i386 helper.c

[Juergen Keil]

> > Try to boot with the kernel debugger enabled, so that you can read 
> > the panic message (I guess it reboots because of a panic).
> 
> D'oh, I should have known that ;). It's not able to mount root. One 
> thing it says on IDE init is:
> 
> ata_set_feature: (0x66,0x0) failed

Harmless.
 
> Then lots of 'timeout: reset bus, target=0, lun=0' and other warnings 
> with:
> 
> Error for command 'read sector' Error Level: informational
> Sense Key: aborted command
> Vendor 'Gen-ATA' error code: 0x3

That's a new problem.  It seems that the updated bios.bin doesn't setup
the ide disk for DMA mode any more, or something like that.  I'm seeing 
the same problem after a qemu cvs update.  When I replace
qemu/share/qemu/bios.bin with an older version the problem is gone.