On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> I've got a 32-bit QEMU Gentoo guest on my machine. For some reason, > it comes up readonly, and other partitions aren't being mounted. > Unfortunately, the initial messages flash by so quickly I can't read > them to get an idea of what's going wrong. Since /usr isn't mounted, > "less" isn't available. I fired up busybox, and ran "dmesg | less". > There was no hint in the output about what went wrong. > > If nothing else, is there a way to greatly slow down the QEMU boot > process so I can at least read the error messages, and have something to > work with? > > -- > Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> > I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications > > Run qemu under screen with the flag -curses. Then scroll the screen up like so: # screen # qemu -curses myimage.qcow2 Then use Ctrl-a ESC to enter scroll mode. PageUP will take you to the kernel log when vm starts. Regards, Kfir
