It's a while since I used qemu, but I think you need to mount images, not
devices. that is, try using "-hda blankimage.img" where you can create an
image using the qemu front-end. That shouldn't affect the ACPI though. Can
you run qemu without directing it to boot from cd-rom?
Hope this helps,
Tim B.
On Saturday 21 June 2008 16:21, Jim Kissel wrote:
> I wanted to have a play with the JeOS Ubuntu ISO and since I don't have
> a USB-CD drive, I thought I would "burn" it to a USB thumb drive. If
> found this in a how-to at http://stuporglue.org/ume-on-eeepc.php
>
> qemu -hda /dev/sdg -cdrom jeos-8.04-jeos-i386.iso -boot d -m 1024
>
> which starts up and displays the usual Ubuntu install menu, but as soon
> as I select "Install" it dies with a
>
> [ 0.0000000[ ACPI: no DMI BIOS year, acpi=force is required to
> enable ACPI
>
>
> The only option I can find is -no-apci which doesn't help. Any thoughts
> on qeum or alternative jeos.iso -> to USB thumb drive would be appreciated.
