Re: Failure to boot CDROM with -drive arg

[Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>]

Le mardi 08 juillet 2008 à 09:51 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange a écrit :
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 10:48:18AM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> > Le mardi 08 juillet 2008 à 09:37 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange a écrit :
> > > The following two command lines should be identical from the user's
> > > point of view:
> > > 
> > > # qemu-kvm -cdrom /home/berrange/boot.iso -boot d -m 500
> > > 
> > > # qemu-kvm -drive file=/home/berrange/boot.iso,if=ide,media=cdrom,index=2,boot=on -m 500
> > > 
> > 
> > "-cdrom /home/berrange/boot.iso" is identical to
> > "-drive file=/home/berrange/boot.iso,index=1,media=cdrom"
> > 
> > with if=ide by default.
> > 
> > Could you try you command line without "boot=on" ?
> 
> Yep, that works - so its clearly something todo with the extboot support

I think "boot=on" must be used only with device that are not managed by
the bios (scsi, virtio-blk, ...).

We should modify the command line interface to check that...

Laurent
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