Good Day to all,

  i wanted to test the live version of devuan so i picked
  devuan_beowulf_3.0.0_RC_amd64_minimal-live.iso
  checked its SHA256SUMS.txt : OK
  then, with tinycorelinux 10 64b as host i booted with :
  $ qemu-system-x86_64 devuan_beowulf_3.0.0_RC_amd64_minimal-live.iso
  (the way i do with any live distro)
  the i got the menu to select among various modes :
    access, access-toram, no probe, std, std-toram
  once i select one (any) the actual boot starts... and ends with :
  [   37.853340] List of all partitions:
  [   37.854275] No filesystem could mount root, tried:
  [   37.854435]
  [   37.856184] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unkno
  wn-block(0,0)
  [   37.858187] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.19.0-9-amd64 #1 Debia
  n 4.19.118-2          
  [   37.858898] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1
  .12.0-0-ga698c8995f-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
  [   37.860049] Call Trace:            
  [   37.868772]  dump_stack+0x66/0x90  
  [   37.869431]  panic+0xe7/0x24a      
  [   37.870943]  mount_block_root+0x2c2/0x2e6
  [   37.871567]  ? do_early_param+0x8e/0x8e
  [   37.871937]  prepare_namespace+0x130/0x166
  [   37.872291]  kernel_init_freeable+0x208/0x218
  [   37.872610]  ? rest_init+0xaa/0xaa
  [   37.872904]  kernel_init+0xa/0x10d
  [   37.873203]  ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
  [   37.877457] Kernel Offset: 0x37800000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation ran
  ge: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff)
  [   37.879827] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs
   on unknown-block(0,0) ]---

any idea about what causes this and suggestions on workarounds?
Thank you all in advance

JClu
202005214