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 11:28:26 +0200 Message-ID: <1215509306.3805.14.camel@frecb07144> References: <20080708083730.GC24934@redhat.com> <20080708091724.GA4861@ralph.linux2go.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Soren Hansen Return-path: Received: from ecfrec.frec.bull.fr ([129.183.4.8]:48072 "EHLO ecfrec.frec.bull.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751337AbYGHJ23 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2008 05:28:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080708091724.GA4861@ralph.linux2go.dk> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Le mardi 08 juillet 2008 =C3=A0 11:17 +0200, Soren Hansen a =C3=A9crit = : > On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 09:37:30AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > 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=3Dc= drom,index=3D2,boot=3Don -m 500 >=20 > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1977971&= group_id=3D180599&atid=3D893831 yes, in fact "media=3Dcdrom,boot=3Don" is not equal to "-cdrom ... -boo= t d". "boot=3Don" means "use bios extension extboot with this drive", and usi= ng extboot allows the bios to manage this device and to boot from it. Laurent --=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