Comment 1 for bug 314789

I had the same results. I can boot the Debian vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-versatile kernel perfectly, but when I try to boot the Ubuntu vmlinuz-2.6.28-4-versatile I get no video output. I cannot even get console output with -monitor stdio. I tested both kernels with no initrd.img and no hard drive. Debian kernel returns kernel panic about no rootfs. The Ubuntu kernel still returns the same results. I am using Ubuntu 8.10 i386 (2.6.27-9-generic) and Qemu version 0.9.1-5ubuntu3.