From: "Marcello 'R.D.O.' Magnifico" <marcello.magnifico@e-cremona.it>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] installing a boot loader into the disk images
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 21:55:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040911195524.GA1794@fortuna.starfleet.cbn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409111418.14548.mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk> (from mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk on Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 15:18:14 +0200)
> An alternative approach would be to get a working Linux install in
> QEmu, with two virtual hard drives - one containing the stock Linux
> distro, one containing your own. Then use the stock distro in QEmu
> to prepare the other disk...
Floppydistros may fit. I personally partition my disk images via a
bootable Linux floppy containing the GNU PartEd. Never tried LILO or
GRUB stuff, because I usually let the real distro to do the right job.
If you just need a bootloader (ANY bootloader), I use GAG
(http://gag.sourceforge.net/) for real machines, and find it to be very
practical. Its approach implies that there's nothing else than GAG
itself in the MBR; so you'll have to tell your OS'es of choice to place
their LILO/GRUB/whatever in the boot sector of their own partition, and
nowhere else, while installing. This might seem odd, but I never
encountered yet an OS that GAG can't start; and it's quite easy and
quick to get back if corrupted or overwritten, say, by a Windows
reinstallation.
yo,
RDO
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-11 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-11 11:56 [Qemu-devel] installing a boot loader into the disk images Diego Iastrubni
2004-09-11 13:18 ` Mark A. Williamson
2004-09-11 14:44 ` Diego Iastrubni
2004-09-11 15:11 ` Mark A. Williamson
2004-09-11 18:06 ` Magnus Damm
2004-09-11 19:55 ` Marcello 'R.D.O.' Magnifico [this message]
2004-09-11 14:25 ` Tim
2004-09-12 6:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander E. Patrakov
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