From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47826) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VFIQh-00048z-Ll for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 02:43:49 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VFIQZ-0001bY-6c for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 02:43:35 -0400 Received: from mx.ipv6.kamp.de ([2a02:248:0:51::16]:35362 helo=mx01.kamp.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VFIQY-0001bE-Q6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 02:43:27 -0400 Message-ID: <52203F0A.4070204@kamp.de> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 08:43:22 +0200 From: Peter Lieven MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <52203B8D.5030507@kamp.de> <52203DAC.4040206@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <52203DAC.4040206@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu Booting a PC without an MBR? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" On 30.08.2013 08:37, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 30/08/2013 08:28, Peter Lieven ha scritto: >> Hi all, >> >> today I had the second incidence of a migrated system (copied with DD) >> to qemu which won't boot. (stuck after booting from harddisk message). >> >> Looking at sector 0 I found out that it does not have an MBR. It seems >> that real hardware and I was told also vmware can cope with this. > Maybe because it's got a UEFI bootloader? In this case, you could try > using OVMF as the firmware with the -bios command-line option. I will try, thanks for the pointer. It seems that the partition marked as boot has a boot loader though. Peter