On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:55:27 +0200
Laurent Sartran <lsartran@no-log.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to install DragonFly 1.2.0-RELEASE (dfly-1.2.0_REL.iso) under QEMU
> 0.6.1, without success.
>
> It boots fine, but "dfuibe_installer" segfaults when I try to start the
> installer, either directly by logging in as "installer", or when I login as
> "root", and then start the installer manually by typing "installer".
> Actually, the nice blue screen with the dragonfly on the right gets displayed,
> a "Waiting for backend..." message appears at the bottom, and _then_, it
> segfaults and returns to the login prompt.
>
> Since a picture is worth a thousand words :-), I have attached a screenshot of
> QEMU showing the problem.
>
> On the other hand, DragonFly pre-1.2 (dfly-20050406-pre1.2.iso) works fine in
> QEMU, the installer starts up without any problem. So do DragonFly 1.2 on
> native hardware, by the way.
That's truly odd. I'm not even quite sure where to begin looking...
Can you run dfuibe_installer under truss(1) and send me the output?
Thanks,
-Chris