Re: Qemu doesn't detect hard drive

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 at 09:01, <address@hidden> wrote:
> I am looking at 'dumping' a Debian like rootfs on the MMC and then use that 
> as the default rootfs instead of the busybox one. Is there an easy to follow 
> guide that you can point me at?  Would save me a couple hours. Also, merely 
> specifying that partition as the kernel 'root' parameter should suffice right?

If you just want to run Debian on a 32-bit arm model and you
don't care about it specifically being vexpress (or that it's
cortex-a9 rather than -a15) you're probably better off using
the "virt" board, which has more memory, supports pci and
so can use real hard disks and a more efficient network
interface, etc.

This walkthrough is a few years old now but should still
be basically correct I think:
https://translatedcode.wordpress.com/2016/11/03/installing-debian-on-qemus-32-bit-arm-virt-board/

thanks
-- PMM