< Qemu for Kernel Newbies >
Building Your Disk Image
  • installing your distro 
    qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom -hda disk-image.img
  • mounting your image
  • disk with 1 partition
  • MBR in first sector
  • partitions start on track boundary
    •  # fdisk -lu disk-image.img
 # losetup -o  /dev/loop0 disk-image.img
 # mount /dev/loop0 /my/mnt/point
  • quirks: debian etch + qemu + grub