$ qemu -nographic -kernel vmlinuz-2.6.17-fw1-i686 -initrd initrd-i686.img.gz -append "initrd=initrd-i686.img.gz load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=33888 rw root=/dev/ram console=ttyS0" -hda ~/documents/qemu/hda.img
(qemu) Linux version 2.6.17-fw1 (fst@i686.frugalware.org) (gcc version 4.1.1) #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jun 18 13:30:38 CEST 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000008000000 (usable)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
128MB LOWMEM available.
DMI not present or invalid.
ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP
Allocating PCI resources starting at 10000000 (gap: 08000000:f8000000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: initrd=initrd-i686.img.gz load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=33888 rw root=/dev/ram console=ttyS0
Found and enabled local APIC!
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes)
Detected 1501.768 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Memory: 107032k/131072k available (2800k kernel code, 23548k reserved, 996k data, 308k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5663.20 BogoMIPS (lpj=2831603)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: L1 I cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 128K
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 20k freed
CPU0: Intel Pentium II (Klamath) stepping 03
SMP motherboard not detected.
Brought up 1 CPUs
migration_cost=0
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (bad gzip magic numbers); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 17921k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf9f40, last bus=0
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20060127
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
SCSI subsystem initialized
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7000] at 0000:00:01.0
PCI: BIOS reporting unknown device 01:00
PCI: BIOS reporting unknown device 01:00
PCI: BIOS reporting unknown device 01:00
PCI: BIOS reporting unknown device 01:00
PCI: BIOS reporting unknown device 01:00
TC classifier action (bugs to netdev@vger.kernel.org cc hadi@cyberus.ca)
PCI: Ignore bogus resource 6 [0:0] of 0000:00:02.0
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 49152 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 24576 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 2048)
TCP reno registered
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, large block numbers, no debug enabled
SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
PCI: PIIX3: Enabling Passive Release on 0000:00:01.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
˙serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450
FDC 0 is a S82078B
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 33888K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX3: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:01.1
PIIX3: chipset revision 0
PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: QEMU HARDDISK, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdc: QEMU CD-ROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 512KiB
hda: 4194304 sectors (2147 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=4161/255/63, (U)DMA
hda: cache flushes supported
 hda: hda1
hdc: ATAPI 4X CD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: raid0 personality registered for level 0
md: raid1 personality registered for level 1
md: raid5 personality registered for level 5
md: raid4 personality registered for level 4
raid5: automatically using best checksumming function: pIII_sse
   pIII_sse  :   240.000 MB/sec
raid5: using function: pIII_sse (240.000 MB/sec)
raid6: int32x1     50 MB/s
raid6: int32x2     46 MB/s
raid6: int32x4     35 MB/s
raid6: int32x8     23 MB/s
raid6: mmxx1       62 MB/s
raid6: mmxx2       74 MB/s
raid6: sse1x1      66 MB/s
raid6: sse1x2      78 MB/s
raid6: sse2x1      85 MB/s
raid6: sse2x2      82 MB/s
raid6: using algorithm sse2x1 (85 MB/s)
md: raid6 personality registered for level 6
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.11rc4 (Wed Mar 22 10:27:24 2006 UTC).
ALSA device list:
  No soundcards found.
TCP bic registered
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI Shortcut mode
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: considering hda1 ...
md:  adding hda1 ...
md: created md0
md: bind<hda1>
md: running: <hda1>
raid1: raid set md0 active with 1 out of 2 mirrors
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
XFS: bad magic number
XFS: SB validate failed
No filesystem could mount root, tried:  reiserfs ext3 ext2 xfs
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0)