DeeJay
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Posted: April 21 2005,17:25 |
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| Quote (cbagger01 @ April 21 2005,12:28) | I don't have a copy of the newer style DSL embedded handy, but I thought that the qemu harddisk and mydsl=xxx stuff was already taken care of inside the defualt windows.bat file
You can doublecheck this by opening the file in Wordpad and take a look at it. There should be a reference to some kind of qemu or harddisk append boot parameter and also a mydsl=xxx reference.
If not, you need to fix this yourself. If mydsl=hdb doesn't work, then try the other syntax and see what happens. |
The Qemu line in the copy of dsl-windows.bat shipped in dsl-embedded-1.0.1.zip at the time of writing looks like this:
START qemu\qemu.exe -L qemu/ -enable-audio -localtime
-kernel linux24
-initrd minirt24.gz
-hda KNOPPIX/knoppix
-hdb qemu/harddisk
-append "qemu sb=0x220,5,1,1 frugal quiet"
[Line breaks added to aid comprehension]
One of my questions to the DSL maintainer(s) [RobertsS?] was going to be whether it would do any harm to ship this file with an appropriate MYDSL entry already in the -append, even if there were no .dsl file to be re-installed, to save neophytes struggling and maybe dismissing DSL as 'broken'?
It turns out that the value of 'xxx', for me, is indeed 'hdb'.
Other sources of information on the web and in these forums have suggested mydsl=harddisk; mydsl=/dev/hdb; mydsl=/mnt/hdb. None of these worked for me in the context of booting a Qemu virtual machine hosted in Windows.
The -append argument in my batch file now reads -
-append "qemu sb=0x220,5,1,1 frugal quiet mydsl=hdb lang=uk"
and both the changes have the expected effect. (But I'll be back later to ask about zoneinfo files.... )
Thanks to all who have helped, esp. CBagger. Perhaps the outcome could be documented. [Or if it is there already, made clearer and the misleading information removed :-) ]
DeeJay
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