Hello, On Wed, 2025-09-17 at 12:51 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > As I mentioned multiple times in the past, I know nothing about alpha > system and how to even boot it, not to say about installing.
You don't need to know anything about alpha when booting it as you can just directly boot the kernel and initrd from the QEMU command line. Just extract them from the ISO, rename the kernel from vmlinuz to vmlinux.gz, unpack it and pass both the kernel and the initrd to the QEMU command line. Then just install the system with the default settings. After the system has been installed, mount the qcow2 disk image using libguestfs-tools as explained in [1] and extract the kernel and initrd from the installed system, then try to boot these to reproduce the bug. > I tried multiple your reproducers - first you wrote the prob happens > when booting kernel, next that initrd is enough, next it was that it > needs a working image. Now you're saying I have to perform installation > of a system. > > I tried too many of your reproducers already, and your requirements > grows each time. Well, I assumed that installing a emulated Debian system by directly passing the kernel and initrd to QEMU as explained in [1] is not something unusual, so I assumed you know how it works. Adrian > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/M68k/QemuSystemM68k -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
