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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Cant boot from scsi cdrom
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> Qemu says :
> CDROM boot failure code : 0003
> Boot from CD-Rom failed
> FATAL : Could not read the boot disk
>
> Is this unsupported at the moment or am I using the wrong command line 
> ?

>>From rombios.c:
- CD-ROM booting is only available if ATA/ATAPI Driver is available

Since the bios lacks support for scsi, cdrom boot only works with 
if=ide.

- Sebastian