Re: QEMU booting of non-NetBSD CDs and virtual HDs

2020-08-30 Thread Robert Nestor
On Aug 24, 2020, at 1:32 PM, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 at 15:08, Robert Nestor wrote: >> >> >> On Aug 23, 2020, at 1:57 PM, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 at 15:41, Robert Nestor wrote: I received a couple of messages off list that suggested

Re: QEMU booting of non-NetBSD CDs and virtual HDs

2020-08-30 Thread Robert Nestor
On Aug 24, 2020, at 1:32 PM, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 at 15:08, Robert Nestor wrote: >> >> >> On Aug 23, 2020, at 1:57 PM, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 at 15:41, Robert Nestor wrote: I received a couple of messages off list that suggested

Re: QEMU booting of non-NetBSD CDs and virtual HDs

2020-08-24 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 at 15:08, Robert Nestor wrote: > > > On Aug 23, 2020, at 1:57 PM, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > > > On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 at 15:41, Robert Nestor wrote: > >> > >> I received a couple of messages off list that suggested a few things and > >> it prompted me to try investigating

Re: QEMU booting of non-NetBSD CDs and virtual HDs

2020-08-24 Thread Robert Nestor
On Aug 23, 2020, at 1:57 PM, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 at 15:41, Robert Nestor wrote: >> >> I received a couple of messages off list that suggested a few things and it >> prompted me to try investigating further with just components found in >> NetBSD. >> >> This test

Re: QEMU booting of non-NetBSD CDs and virtual HDs

2020-08-23 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 at 21:01, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 at 19:57, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > > > > On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 at 15:41, Robert Nestor wrote: > > > > > > I received a couple of messages off list that suggested a few things and > > > it prompted me to try investigating

Re: QEMU booting of non-NetBSD CDs and virtual HDs

2020-08-23 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 at 19:57, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 at 15:41, Robert Nestor wrote: > > > > I received a couple of messages off list that suggested a few things and it > > prompted me to try investigating further with just components found in > > NetBSD. > > > > This

Re: QEMU booting of non-NetBSD CDs and virtual HDs

2020-08-23 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 at 15:41, Robert Nestor wrote: > > I received a couple of messages off list that suggested a few things and it > prompted me to try investigating further with just components found in NetBSD. > > This test was run on a fairly recent NetBSD build of 9.99.70. I downloaded >

Re: QEMU booting of non-NetBSD CDs and virtual HDs

2020-08-23 Thread Robert Nestor
I received a couple of messages off list that suggested a few things and it prompted me to try investigating further with just components found in NetBSD. This test was run on a fairly recent NetBSD build of 9.99.70. I downloaded the amd64 images for 9.99.71 (the ISO and IMG files), and tried

QEMU booting of non-NetBSD CDs and virtual HDs

2020-08-15 Thread Robert Nestor
Further adventures with QEMU booting of non-NetBSD CDs and virtual HDs. I've had some success, but have also uncovered a couple of bugs, one minor and two rather significant. To keep things simple here, I've only addressed the problems I've seen in trying to boot the rEFInd CD and MSDOS image