❦ 17 octobre 2016 11:40 +0200, Vincent Bernat <ber...@debian.org> :

> Since QEMU 2.7, it is not possible to boot a Linux kernel anymore
> (with -kernel and -initrd). We get the following error:
>
>   Could not open option rom 'linuxboot_dma.bin': No such file or directory
>
> The seabios package has linuxboot.bin but not linuxboot_dma.bin. This
> ROM has been added here:
>
>   
> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=b2a575a1c652904600869e774e45bf4c9ed72c55

I don't quite understand the relation between seabios and QEMU, but if
seabios package could provide a symlink from linuxboot.bin to
linuxboot_dma.bin, this seems to work just fine. And I understand that
QEMU was using linuxboot.bin in 2.6.
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