From: Benjamin Brown <spam@silentsoftware.co.uk>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Booting from CD Rom - finicky?
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 18:52:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40C359CF.4050305@silentsoftware.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200406061944.33924.trunks-carracho@planet.nl>
It can boot from images - thats how I managed to install some client OS.
It can actually boot from floppy if I specify -fda /dev/sda and -boot a .
(I have a USB floppy).
Thanks,
Benjamin
Sander Nagtegaal wrote:
>And if you make a disc image ( ISO ) of the cdrom? Does it then stil fail?
>
>Op zondag 6 juni 2004 19:41, schreef Benjamin Brown:
>
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I've installed QEMU 5.5 on Mandrake 10.0 and Windows XP and although
>>both recognise my CDRom drives after starting a client OS I can't get
>>them to boot from auto starting CDs (i.e. Windows 98 install cd).
>>
>>To start it under linux I use (windows98.img is an empty 2GB file):
>>
>>qemu -boot d -cdrom /dev/cdrom -hda /opt/qemu/windows98.img
>>
>>I'm unsure of the parameters for windows so I've tried:
>>
>>qemu.exe --boot d --cdrom "E:\" --hda "C:\windows98.img"
>>
>>I've had no success :(
>>
>>Any help greatly appreciated,
>>
>>Benjamin
>>
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-06 17:41 [Qemu-devel] Booting from CD Rom - finicky? Benjamin Brown
2004-06-06 17:44 ` Sander Nagtegaal
2004-06-06 17:52 ` Benjamin Brown [this message]
2004-06-08 21:17 ` Benjamin Brown
2004-06-08 21:22 ` Hetz Ben Hamo
2004-06-08 21:26 ` Bartosz Fabianowski
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