From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K8ITv-0000I4-3W for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:27:03 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K8ITp-0000Hs-3m for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:27:01 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58034 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K8ITo-0000Hp-Tc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:26:56 -0400 Received: from brick.kernel.dk ([87.55.233.238]:1245 helo=kernel.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K8ITo-0006PQ-I4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:26:56 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:26:49 +0200 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Boot Failure (CDROM boot failure code : 0004) Message-ID: <20080616172649.GP20851@kernel.dk> References: <874p7tinv3.fsf@alamut.mobiliz.com.tr> <1213619803.3810.8.camel@frecb07144> <87zlplh68t.fsf_-_@alamut.mobiliz.com.tr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87zlplh68t.fsf_-_@alamut.mobiliz.com.tr> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Laurent Vivier On Mon, Jun 16 2008, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Laurent Vivier writes: > > could you burn a CD with your .iso and try to boot a real PC ? > > I created the ISO image from the same CD that's inserted into the > /dev/scd0 using below command: > > root:~# dd bs=$[1024 * 32] \ > > if=/dev/scd0 \ > > of=/root/windows-server-2003-standard-x86-64-sp2.iso > > And I'm sure CD is bootable. (Not pirated, original.) OTOH, if we'd > assume the ISO image is corrupted for some unknown reason, why "-cdrom > /dev/scd0" didn't work? You can't just do a dd and expect the output to be bootable, that wont include the floppy boot image. So nothing wrong with qemu, that iso would not be bootable if burned either. -- Jens Axboe