This is a known and documented problem with a simple workaround: "Known issue: currently requires start from installation directory or -L option to specify the location of the firmware files."
And it is already fixed in the newer installer. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1915794 Title: could not load PC BIOS 'bios-256k.bin' on latest Windows exe (*-20210203.exe) Status in QEMU: New Bug description: I'm using https://scoop.sh/ to install QEMU on a Windows CI job, which is run daily. Since today, the job is failing with an `could not load PC BIOS 'bios-256k.bin'` error thrown by QEMU. The version that causes this error is: https://qemu.weilnetz.de/w64/2021/qemu-w64-setup-20210203.exe#/dl.7z The previous version, which worked fine, was: https://qemu.weilnetz.de/w64/2020/qemu-w64-setup-20201124.exe#/dl.7z Both CI runs build the exact same code. You can find the full logs at https://github.com/rust- osdev/x86_64/runs/1908137213?check_suite_focus=true (failing) and https://github.com/rust- osdev/x86_64/runs/1900698412?check_suite_focus=true (previous). (I hope this is the right place to report this issue.) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1915794/+subscriptions
