From: "André Braga" <meianoite@gmail.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Booting Linux in Windows XP
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:12:47 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2ad73a050616091264ddb033@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4e39348605061606123222d205@mail.gmail.com>
2005/6/16, Aaron Feng <aaron.feng@gmail.com>:
> Yesterday I tried QEMU for the first time, I downloaded the 0.70
> Windows installer package, and everything installed just fine. I also
> downloaded Mandrake 10 image from freeoszoo.org, but I'm having
> trouble to get Mandrake to boot. Here is the command I used:
>
> qemu.exe -L "path_to_my_mandrake_image"
>
> Nothing happened, I just get the prompt back without any errors. Is
> there any way for me to get a more informative error messages when I'm
> trying to boot?
Well, I guess you misunderstood the documentation, as you gave QEMU
the wrong option. -L is supposed to be fed with the path to the BIOS
image, not the OS image. The OS image file should be specified with
-hda or -cdrom, depending on the case.
--
"I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not
have C++ in mind"-Alan Kay
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-16 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-16 13:12 [Qemu-devel] Booting Linux in Windows XP Aaron Feng
2005-06-16 14:29 ` [Qemu-devel] re: Nothing happens Josef Moffett
2005-06-16 16:36 ` Paul Brook
2005-06-16 18:15 ` Thayne Harbaugh
2005-06-17 7:18 ` Josef Moffett
2005-06-16 21:25 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2005-06-16 21:47 ` Paul Brook
2005-06-17 7:08 ` Josef Moffett
2005-06-16 16:12 ` André Braga [this message]
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