From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laurent Vivier Subject: Re: Failure to boot CDROM with -drive arg Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:48:18 +0200 Message-ID: <1215506898.3805.5.camel@frecb07144> References: <20080708083730.GC24934@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Return-path: Received: from ecfrec.frec.bull.fr ([129.183.4.8]:53470 "EHLO ecfrec.frec.bull.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751163AbYGHIsW (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2008 04:48:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080708083730.GC24934@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Le mardi 08 juillet 2008 =C3=A0 09:37 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange a =C3=A9= crit : > The following two command lines should be identical from the user's > point of view: >=20 > # qemu-kvm -cdrom /home/berrange/boot.iso -boot d -m 500 >=20 > # qemu-kvm -drive file=3D/home/berrange/boot.iso,if=3Dide,media=3Dcdr= om,index=3D2,boot=3Don -m 500 >=20 "-cdrom /home/berrange/boot.iso" is identical to "-drive file=3D/home/berrange/boot.iso,index=3D1,media=3Dcdrom" with if=3Dide by default. Could you try you command line without "boot=3Don" ? > With the 2nd though, the initial CDROM syslinux loads, but fails to l= oad > the graphical menu, and also fails to boot in text mode fallback: >=20 > 'vesamenu.c32: attempted DOS system call" >=20 > (See screenshot: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=3D3112= 21 ) >=20 > I've reproduced this with both KVM 65 and 70, on a Fedora 9 host. The= CDROM > boot.iso image I'm using here is the Fedora 9 $URL/images/boot.iso f= rom > any standard Fedora install tree. >=20 > I can only imagine there's something different in the way extboot set= s up > the CPU/pagetables during cdrom boot, but its rather beyond my skills >=20 > This was originally reported by a Fedora user here >=20 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D452355 >=20 > Daniel --=20 --------- Laurent.Vivier@bull.net ---------- "=EF=BB=BF=EF=BB=BFL'avenir ne se pr=C3=A9voit pas, il se pr=C3=A9pare.= " - Maurice Blondel