I have flashed archlinux arm to my raspberry pi's SD card, and installed some packages. I have also created a non-privileged user account.
I would now like to plug the SD card into my x86_64 computer using a USB microcontroller, and boot the arch install using qemu.
Note this is not the same question as, "how do I boot an archlinux arm image using Qemu?".
dmesg reports:
[858076.937323] sd 14:0:0:1: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through
[858076.938569] sdf: sdf1 sdf2 sdf3
where partitions sdf{1,2,3} correspond--respectively--to boot, root, and home mountpoints.
fstab on the pi is:
/dev/root / auto defaults 0 1
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p3 /home ext4 defaults,user 0 0
I have tried a bunch of different qemu incantations, such as:
sudo qemu-system-arm -machine versatilepb \
-cpu arm1176 -m 1024 -no-reboot -serial stdio \
-append "root=/dev/sda2 panic=1 rw" -hda /dev/sdf \
-kernel /mnt/rpi/boot/kernel.img
But I'm getting a black screen when I run the above command.
Finally, I'd like to add the tag "qemu" but don't have the rep...
EDIT @Jivings:
Getting warmer, but I'm unable to unpack the kernel.img as it doesn't seem to be in a standard format. I found some interesting information on Github, however, regarding how that kernel.img file is created:
This step of the build script:
https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/blob/master/core/linux-raspberrypi/PKGBUILD#L111
Calls this python script, which concatenates two files into kernel.img:
See also:
https://github.com/raspberrypi/tools/issues/2
% sudo mount -o loop,offset=32768 kernel.img /mnt/kernel
does not work.
Actually I think that the output of
dd bs=$(stat -c%s first32k.bin) skip=1 if=kernel.img
would be bzImage ... correct?
zImage) which I think is found insidekernel.img. Can you extract or mount that and see?