[LinuxBIOS] VGA help under QEMU

[Myles Watson]

On Jan 3, 2008 12:51 PM, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 3, 2008 10:24 AM, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
> > attached are:
> > output from boot
> > bios
> > .config
> > all .bin files qemu might have used.
> >
> > I ran this with:
> >  qemu -serial stdio -L . -kernel linux-2.6.15-bochs/vmlinux -hdc hda
> > -hda hda | tee out
> >
> > thanks
> > ron
> >
>
> Thanks.  The difference is indeed the vga bios.  The one I have
> attached is the latest one distributed with qemu.  It works with v2,
> but not v3.  Yours works with v2 and v3.
>
> The obvious work-around for me is to use your vga bios, but it's a
> pain to keep the old one around for everyone.
>
> I tried changing the emulator, but it didn't make a difference whether
> I used x86emu or vm86.
>
> Do you have any suggestions?
>
> Myles
>

It turns out that LinuxBIOSv3 doesn't play well with the new
vgabios-cirrus.bin from qemu.  I've attached both versions so that
people can play with them.  LinuxBIOSv2 works with either one.

Myles
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