From: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
To: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu Booting a PC without an MBR?
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 19:01:53 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130830110153.GA7392@T430s.nay.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52203F0A.4070204@kamp.de>
On Fri, 08/30 08:43, Peter Lieven wrote:
> On 30.08.2013 08:37, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >Il 30/08/2013 08:28, Peter Lieven ha scritto:
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>today I had the second incidence of a migrated system (copied with DD)
> >>to qemu which won't boot. (stuck after booting from harddisk message).
> >>
> >>Looking at sector 0 I found out that it does not have an MBR. It seems
> >>that real hardware and I was told also vmware can cope with this.
> >Maybe because it's got a UEFI bootloader? In this case, you could try
> >using OVMF as the firmware with the -bios command-line option.
> I will try, thanks for the pointer.
>
> It seems that the partition marked as boot has a boot loader though.
>
As a simple workaround you could boot with a GRUB iso and chainload the
partition, when you are in the guest OS, fix the MBR.
Fam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-30 11:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-30 6:28 [Qemu-devel] Qemu Booting a PC without an MBR? Peter Lieven
2013-08-30 6:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-30 6:43 ` Peter Lieven
2013-08-30 11:01 ` Fam Zheng [this message]
2013-09-02 12:59 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2013-09-02 13:00 ` Richard W.M. Jones
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