From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Cc: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Failure to boot CDROM with -drive arg
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:59:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <487380DB.5080108@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1215524729.3805.21.camel@frecb07144>
Laurent Vivier wrote:
> So, "boot=on" means in fact "bootable=true"
>
I guess. I don't know that the later is more clear. I think the source
of the confusion is the entire concept of "first bootable harddisk"
which is what -boot c really means.
FWIW, the reason media=cdrom,boot=on doesn't work, is that a CDROM's
boot record is in el torito format instead of the traditional BIOS boot
sector.
media=cdrom,boot=on would work if the image was a disk image instead of
an ISO.
In fact, I'm inclined to think that media=cdrom,boot=on should not be
explicitly prohibited because of this fact.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> Regards,
> Laurent
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-08 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-08 8:37 Failure to boot CDROM with -drive arg Daniel P. Berrange
2008-07-08 8:48 ` Laurent Vivier
2008-07-08 8:51 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-07-08 8:54 ` Laurent Vivier
2008-07-08 9:17 ` Soren Hansen
2008-07-08 9:21 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-07-08 9:29 ` Laurent Vivier
2008-07-08 13:01 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-08 13:45 ` Laurent Vivier
2008-07-08 14:59 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2008-07-08 15:03 ` Laurent Vivier
2008-07-08 15:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-08 9:28 ` Laurent Vivier
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