I am trying to boot LinuxBIOS using qemu with VGA support. I have got both V2 & V3 to boot with a FILO payload and the linux test disk image from QEMU website using the -nographic option.
I can boot the disk image using qemu and the bios & vgabios it came with.
I cannot get it to come up with either V2 or V3. I have tried copying the vgabios.bin image to a local directory and then booting qemu with the -L ./ option. I see the initial QEMu messages a blank screen appears that looks like the VGA output and then it goes down to a small block on the screen.
I have compiled V3 with x86emu support. Under V2 I could not figure out how to get it to compile with VGA support.
Under v2 I just used the default config in buildrom and made sure that the ROM file from LinuxBIOS and the vgabios*.bin files were in the same directory. It hangs during the boot, but not because of the VGA. I'm looking into it more.
For v3 I get the same thing you do.
I started qemu with "-L BIOS_DIR hd.img"
Myles