[openfirmware] Troubleshooting VGA under qemu?

Marcin Cieslak saper at saper.info
Wed Sep 30 13:52:27 CET 2015


On Wed, 30 Sep 2015, Marcin Cieslak wrote:

> One gets on the serial console this output:
> 
> Install console
> Can't open output device.
> Generic PC, Serial #0, 32 MiB memory installed

This one was easy... input-device keyboard
is active so one just needs to type "blindly"
at the "AT keyboard" (in the QEMU graphical window)
and the output goes to the serial console.
Maybe using fallback devices would be less surprising,
but this is not a bug.

Marcin



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