booting hardisk image on qemu
 

Didn't find where to post this so I am posting it here.
Please excuse me If this not the perfect place !!
I just downloaded the minix 1.5 disk image from www.oldlinux.org .The site says "The environment that Linus developped linux system. The hard disk parameters are: cyls=685, hds=16, sects=38. Username/Passwd: root/root". I downloaded it because I wanted to compile the ancient kernel Linux 0.01 myself but when I used the disk image on qemu it says not a bootable disk.

Has anybody tried this can anybody help me to boot this disk image ??
I have tried it on bochs2.1 and bochs2.5 but without any success !!

If you had received a raw hard drive image of some OS you just use it as -hda /filename. It needs to be uncompressed.

I doubt minix has a real linux kernel in it.

To get real linux you need to go to kernel.org http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kern.../old-versions/

What do you mean by minix real linux kernel ?
I couldn't make any sense from your post.
Please try to explain in more detail if you really know about it.
Minix uses its own kernel it doesn't use linux.
Yes ,I know that -hda <image> parameter boot the raw hardisk image and the image format is .img
As this is really old system (older than linux) ,I guess it need something more to boot as the concept of harddisk was not similar back in those days.

It might not be what you're looking for, but somebody has adapted the 0.01 kernel source so it builds with gcc 4:
http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Dusting_Off_the_0.01_Kernel

slayerking,

Now you have downloaded minix, now open a terminal, change directory to where you want to create the Hard Disk Image, and write:

This will create a 4.7GB hard disk image named minix.img, which you can use to install the operating system.

You have downloaded the image from www.oldlinux.org, first using gunzip decompress the image:

Now you can mount the iso image:

when the installation is over, type:

to exit minix

Now you have installed minix on the virtual machine. To boot minix from the virtual disk image, type:

O my goodness !!
What are you trying to teach me ?
I know how to use qemu pretty well. I am not a noob in linux.
Minix 1.5 was released on 1987. Back in those days cdrom were not even developed how could you find the cd image of minix 1.5 .It was only distributed on floppy. We are talking here about time when hard-disk size use to be 40mb.
I have got this old hard-disk image in oldlinux.org.I have just tried every possible combination and tricks that I know to boot this hard-disk image but was unable to boot.The thing I am asking is to boot this hard-disk image not because I don't know qemu ,its because the hard-disk layout use to be different back in those days.
I can't even ask this on oldlinux.org because the forum are all in chinese .Even when I use google translator the forum is still shown in broken english which doesn't make sense at all.
Are there any experienced member who can guide me through this?

Ohhh OHh Ohh, I'm really sorry for my last post. I think I havn't read your post correctly.. Sorry for the mistake.