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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu for macosx can't boot linux partition
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To: Enric Pedascoll Quingles <bulmakeio@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Just from my experienc with using CD-ROM under OS X:

say You want partition 1 of disk 5

You dont need the: /dev/disk5s1
But: /dev/rdisk5s1 wich is a raw access

Mike

Enric Pedascoll Quingles wrote:

>well, now i have running macosX.4 and i want to start a qemu session
>with a Debian partition, i know that macos partition is disk0s5 but
>all other partitions are Debian (swap, root, home ...), i try to boot
>all the disk /dev/disk0 and select Debian in a yaboot but when i type
>qemu -hda /dev/disk0, qemu crash
>
>
>On 9/28/05, Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe@elis.ugent.be> wrote:
>  
>
>>On 28 sep 2005, at 16:29, Enric Pedascoll Quingles wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>i try to boot a fisical mac's partition with qemu but i don't obtain
>>>good results
>>>i have read in documentation files that the command is:
>>>
>>>~#qemu -snapshot -hda /dev/(your disk)
>>>
>>>i try several way with the same result
>>>
>>>~#qemu -snapshot -hda /dev/hda
>>>~#qemu -snapshot -hda /dev/disk0
>>>~#qemu -snapshot -hda /dev/hda0s1..s2...s5
>>>
>>>and nothing...
>>>      
>>>
>>Under Mac OS X, partitions are available as /dev/diskXsY and not /dev/
>>hdXsY. Your boot partition /dev/disk0sY, other disks can get a
>>different number after every reboot.
>>
>>You can find the device name of a partition (under Mac OS X 10.4.x at
>>least) by opening /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility, selecting a
>>partition and choosing File->Get Info.
>>
>>
>>Jonas
>>
>>    
>>
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