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From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Conrad Wood <cnw@profitbricks.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AHCI Boot disk?
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:50:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120213095031.GW18866@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1329123346.24157.28.camel@olympa.profitbricks.localdomain>

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 09:55:46AM +0100, Conrad Wood wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am attempting to test AHCI disks and find that I am unable to boot of
> the disk, even though the disk is seen if I do a network boot.
> 
> This works:
> 
> -drive
> file=/srv/kvm/debian.raw,if=virtio,cache=writeback,bus=0,index=0,media=disk,format=raw,serial=1,boot=on
> 
You shouldn't use boot=on.

> This [1] does not:
> 
> -drive file=/srv/kvm/debian.raw,if=none,id=${AHCIID} \
> -device ahci,id=${AHCIID} \
> -device ide-hd,drive=${AHCIID},bus=${AHCIID}.0 
> 
> The latter gives me : "Boot failed. Could not read the boot disk"
> 
> 1. Should it work?
AFAIK yes if you BIOS is up-to-date.

> 2. If so, what am I doing wrong? ;)
> 
Try to compile BIOS from git://git.seabios.org/seabios.git

> Any help much appreciated!
> 
> Conrad
> 
> [1]
> http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/0.14#IDE_.2F_AHCI
> 
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-13  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-13  8:55 AHCI Boot disk? Conrad Wood
2012-02-13  9:50 ` Gleb Natapov [this message]
2012-02-13  9:51   ` Conrad Wood

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