Image format is unsupported while building QEMU - coreboot

29 Feb 2008


      Hi......
We are building the QEMU, we followed the steps as given in the
coreboot.org/QEMU_BUILD_Tutorial
1. building the FILO payload
   we downloaded FILO(0.5) then to create the filo.elf file we followed
these steps
$make
  $ vi Config
  $ make
2.  Building coreboot
for creating the coreboot image we followed this steps
$ ./buildtarget emulation/qemu-x86
    $ make
3. Building QEMU
     then we installed QUMU(0.9.0)
4. Creating a hard disk image
     for creating empty disk image we used
     $ qemu-img create -f raw  disk.img  5G
Then formated using
   $ mkfs.ext2 -F disk.img
   then  we  created  mountpoint and mount the image
   # mkdir /mnt/rootfs
   # mount -o loop disk.img /mnt/rootfs
   then we created the boot directory and copied Linux kernel(vmlinuz) and
   initramfs (initrd) to it :
   # mkdir /mnt/rootfs/boot
   # cp vmlinuz /mnt/rootfs/boot/vmlinuz
   # cp initrd /mnt/rootfs/boot/initrd
then we unmounted cd out of /mnt/rootfs
 # umount /mnt/rootfs
 # exit
5. Starting coreboot in QEMU
Then executed  QEMU using
   $ qemu -L ~ -hda disk.img -nographic
At the end of this we got the ERROR  like this
[malatesh@turtle22 ~]$ qemu -L ~ -hda disk.img -nographic
Could not configure '/dev/rtc' to have a 1024 Hz timer. This is not a fatal
error, but for better emulation accuracy either use a 2.6 host Linux kernel
or
type 'echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq' as root.
Could not open '/dev/kqemu' - QEMU acceleration layer not activated
(qemu)
coreboot-2.0.0-GRUB2 Fri Feb 22 15:42:36 IST 2008 starting...
Copying coreboot to RAM.
Jumping to coreboot.
coreboot-2.0.0-GRUB2 Fri Feb 22 15:42:36 IST 2008 booting...
Enumerating buses...
Finding PCI configuration type.
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI_DOMAIN: 0000 enabled
PCI: pci_scan_bus for bus 00
PCI: 00:00.0 [8086/1237] enabled
PCI: 00:01.0 [8086/7000] enabled
PCI: 00:01.1 [8086/7010] enabled
PCI: 00:01.3 [8086/7113] enabled
PCI: 00:02.0 [1013/00b8] enabled
PCI: 00:03.0 [10ec/8029] enabled
PCI: pci_scan_bus returning with max=000
done
Allocating resources...
Reading resources...
Done reading resources.
Setting resources...
RAM size config registers are empty; defaulting to 64 MBytes
I would set ram size to 0x10000 Kbytes
PCI: 00:01.1 20 <- [0x0000001400 - 0x000000140f] size 0x00000010 gran 0x04
io
PCI: 00:02.0 10 <- [0x00fc000000 - 0x00fdffffff] size 0x02000000 gran 0x19
prefmem
PCI: 00:02.0 14 <- [0x00fe000000 - 0x00fe000fff] size 0x00001000 gran 0x0c
mem
PCI: 00:03.0 10 <- [0x0000001000 - 0x00000010ff] size 0x00000100 gran 0x08
io
Done setting resources.
Done allocating resources.
Enabling resources...
PCI: 00:00.0 subsystem <- 00/00
PCI: 00:00.0 cmd <- 00
PCI: 00:01.0 subsystem <- 00/00
PCI: 00:01.0 cmd <- 07
PCI: 00:01.1 cmd <- 01
PCI: 00:01.3 cmd <- 00
PCI: 00:02.0 cmd <- 03
PCI: 00:03.0 cmd <- 01
done.
Initializing devices...
Root Device init
PCI: 00:00.0 init
PCI: 00:01.0 init
PCI: 00:01.1 init
PCI: 00:01.3 init
PCI: 00:02.0 init
INSTALL REAL-MODE IDT
DO THE VGA BIOS
found VGA: vid=1013, did=b8
rom base, size: c0000
BAD SIGNATURE 0x0 0x0
biosint: INT# 0x10
biosint: eax 0x2 ebx 0x0 ecx 0x1 edx 0x0
biosint: ebp 0x11fac esp 0xffa edi 0x0 esi 0x12898
biosint: ip 0x8046 cs 0x0 flags 0x46
BIOSINT: Unsupport int #0x10
PCI: 00:03.0 init
Devices initialized
Copying IRQ routing tables to 0xf0000...done.
Verifing copy of IRQ routing tables at 0xf0000...failed
Moving GDT to 0x500...ok
Adjust low_table_end from 0x00000530 to 0x00001000
Adjust rom_table_end from 0x000f0400 to 0x00100000
Wrote coreboot table at: 00000530 - 00000bec checksum 6eb8
Welcome to elfboot, the open sourced starter.
January 2002, Eric Biederman.
Version 1.3
rom_stream: 0xfffc0000 - 0xfffeffff
Found ELF candidate at offset 0
header_offset is 0
Try to load at offset 0x0
Booting ''
Unsupported image format
with regards,
malatesh.