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Prerequisites

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Preface

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Build the Kernel with Hard Disk Support

Kernel Configurations

Notice : For below-mentioned options, their name and position in menuconfig GUI (5.15.57) is given, which might be different in other versions of kernel.

Required and highly-recommanded additional options are listed below :

• [*] Enable loadable module support --->

• [*] Enable the block layer --->

  • [*] Block layer debugging information in debugfs

• Device Driver --->

  • [*] PCI support ---> <TODO: does tinyconfig enable this option ?>

  • SCSI device support --->

    • <*> SCSI disk support

  • <*> Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers (libata) --->

    • [*] ATA SFF support (for legacy IDE and PATA)

      • [*] ATA BMDMA support

        • <*> Intel ESB, ICH, PIIX3, PIIX4 PATA/SATA support

• File systems --->

  • <*> The Extended 4 (ext4) filesystem

    • [*] Use ext4 for ext2 file systems

    • [*] Ext4 POSIX Access Control Lists

    • [ ] Ext4 Security Labels

    • [*] Ext4 debugging support

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References

• QEMU Documentation - Direct Linux Boot (opens new window)

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Appendix

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