On Sun, 19 Sep 2021 13:38:42 +0200 Stefan Kadow <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > I found some old posts in the net describing how to build a grub > image and start it with qemu. With just two simple steps: > > grub-mkstandalone -O i386-qemu -o grub.rom > "/boot/grub/grub.cfg=./grub.cfg" > > qemu-system-x86-64 -M pc -m 512 -bios grub.rom > > Unfortunately, I have no success with it. No matter what additional > parameters I use or what entries I make in grub.cfg, I get neither > error messages nor any screen output. I have tried curses, sdl and > gtk output, the only thing I get is the qemu message "Guest has not > initialized the display (yet)". > > What have I missed? > Without error messages I can not help myself. > I am on Arch Linux using an AUR package. Have you seen this post[1]? What happens if you follow those instructions (except adding the patch) and see if you can boot the qemu platform. If that works, which I expect it to, try again with the 2.06 release and see if that works also. I suspect you're not including needed modules (namely ones for displaying graphics among others). Glenn [1] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/blueprints/-/wikis/more_efficient_memory_wipe/grub/#using-a-qemu-image
