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From: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] optional hda image
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Hi all,

$ qemu -kernel bzImage -nographic
A disk image must be given for 'hda' when booting a Linux kernel
$

Any particular reason why 'hda' must exist?

There must be many ways to boot a system without ide devices,
with tftp or from floppy are the first that comes to my mind.

/ magnus