QEMU

THIS DOES NOT WORK. REPEAT, DOES NOT WORK. THIS IS STILL BEING INVESTIGATED.

1) Grab qemu-omap3.

2) Compile (standard configure options are fine).

3) Create a full PC-partitioned disk image with a fat32 partition. extract the root image into it:

mount -o loop,offset=16384 root.img m
cd m
tar xzvf ../nova-cust-image-castle.rootfs.tar.gz

4) The bootloader must be named mlo in the root directory:

cp boot/boot.bin mlo
cd ..
umount m

5) qemu-system-arm -M beagle -sd root.img

You will probably get this output:

omap3_mmc_fat_boot: MLO file not found in the root directory
qemu: fatal: no boot device found
R00=00000000 R01=00000000 R02=00000000 R03=00000000
R04=00000000 R05=00000000 R06=00000000 R07=00000000
R08=00000000 R09=00000000 R10=00000000 R11=00000000
R12=00000000 R13=00000000 R14=00000000 R15=400140a4
PSR=400001d3 -Z-- A svc32
Aborted

Not sure why. Still digging.

I added some debugging hooks into QEMU and it looks like it's not parsing the file system. it's *finding* everything fine, but seems to not want to actually read the data clusters. Perhaps it's an issue with mkdosfs...?