[Qemu-devel] Booting from Install Cdrom

[Qemu-devel] Booting from Install Cdrom

[Dave Feustel]

How to do it?

I am currently trying to get qemu to boot from /dev/cd0a (cdrom)
using the command "qemu -cdrom /dev/cd0a -hda ins37.img -boot d"
(ins37.img is a newly created 10G disk image).
But qemu reports that it cannot boot from the cdrom device, which has
in it the install cdrom for OpenBSD 3.7. What else do I need to do to get
qemu to successfully boot from the cdrom (and install a fresh copy of 
OpenBSD 3.7 in ins37.img)?

Thanks.
Dave Feustel
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Booting from Install Cdrom

[Bakul Shah]

I just directly give a .iso as cdrom as in

    qemu -cdrom foo.iso -boot d ins37.img

Re: [Qemu-devel] Booting from Install Cdrom

[Dave Feustel]

On Sunday 06 November 2005 15:24, Bakul Shah wrote:
> I just directly give a .iso as cdrom as in
> 
>     qemu -cdrom foo.iso -boot d ins37.img
> 
This had not even crossed my mind; I will try it out.

I also wonder if the -boot option must preceed the file name
(as you show it here). I had them reversed as is shown in the
documentation.

Thanks!
Dave  

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Re: [Qemu-devel] Booting from Install Cdrom

[Dave Feustel]

On Sunday 06 November 2005 15:51, you wrote:
> > On Sunday 06 November 2005 15:24, Bakul Shah wrote:
> > > I just directly give a .iso as cdrom as in
> > > 
> > >     qemu -cdrom foo.iso -boot d ins37.img

I just downloaded all the OpenBSD 3.8 files into a local directory.
Qemu boots the OpenBSD install program when I supply the .iso 
file as you suggested. The install goes smoothly until it is time to 
install the .tgz files which (not surprisingly) are not found by the 
install program. Now I need to get the tgz files moved into a qemu 
img file where the install program will be able to see them.
How that is done?

Thanks,
Dave Feustel
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