Linux-PC-98-Debian-13-i386-v0.1.0

Linux/PC-98 Debian 13 i386 Disk Image

This release provides a qemu-pc98 raw disk image containing the Linux 6.12
PC-98 port and a Debian 13 i386 userland.

Requirements

This image does not run on upstream QEMU. It requires the PC-98-enabled
qemu-pc98 build.

Debian 13 i386 uses P6 instructions, so select at least a Pentium II CPU.
The PC-98 machine does not currently connect the APIC; disable the CPU's
advertised APIC feature with:

-cpu pentium2,-apic

A representative command line is:

qemu-system-i386 \
  -M pc9821 \
  -cpu pentium2,-apic \
  -m 128 \
  -drive if=ide,bus=0,unit=0,format=raw,file=qemu-pc98-debian13-i386-v0.1.0.raw

Disk layout

• Partition 1: DOS-compatible FAT16 containing the Linux BZIMAGE
• Partition 2: ext4 Debian 13 i386 root filesystem
• Initial root password: pc98

The PC-98 IPL at LBA 0 loads the FAT16-aware Linux loader from LBA 2.
Partition 1 does not require a custom PBR, so a DOS boot sector may be
installed without affecting the Linux IPL path.

Download and extraction

Verify the archive with the accompanying .sha256 file, then extract it:

sha256sum -c qemu-pc98-debian13-i386-v0.1.0.raw.xz.sha256
xz -dk qemu-pc98-debian13-i386-v0.1.0.raw.xz