From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BX1fB-0000Yn-NH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 06 Jun 2004 13:42:29 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BX1fA-0000YV-0j for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 06 Jun 2004 13:42:29 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BX1f9-0000YS-TD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 06 Jun 2004 13:42:27 -0400 Received: from [66.111.4.26] (helo=out2.smtp.messagingengine.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BX1eJ-000791-DO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 06 Jun 2004 13:41:35 -0400 Received: from silentsoftware.co.uk (host81-7-62-227.surfport24.v21.co.uk [81.7.62.227]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDD73C05227 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2004 13:41:31 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <40C3574A.2020901@silentsoftware.co.uk> Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 18:41:30 +0100 From: Benjamin Brown MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Booting from CD Rom - finicky? Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Hi all, I've installed QEMU 5.5 on Mandrake 10.0 and Windows XP and although both recognise my CDRom drives after starting a client OS I can't get them to boot from auto starting CDs (i.e. Windows 98 install cd). To start it under linux I use (windows98.img is an empty 2GB file): qemu -boot d -cdrom /dev/cdrom -hda /opt/qemu/windows98.img I'm unsure of the parameters for windows so I've tried: qemu.exe --boot d --cdrom "E:\" --hda "C:\windows98.img" I've had no success :( Any help greatly appreciated, Benjamin