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From: Benjamin Brown <spam@silentsoftware.co.uk>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Booting from CD Rom - finicky?
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 22:17:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40C62CDF.2050009@silentsoftware.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40C359CF.4050305@silentsoftware.co.uk>

Does the boot from cd option only work for images or is it supposed to 
boot from an actual CD Rom?

Thanks,

Benjamin

Benjamin Brown wrote:

> It can boot from images - thats how I managed to install some client 
> OS. It can actually boot from floppy if I specify -fda /dev/sda and 
> -boot a .
> (I have a USB floppy).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Benjamin
>
> Sander Nagtegaal wrote:
>
>> And if you make a disc image ( ISO ) of the cdrom? Does it then stil 
>> fail?
>>
>> Op zondag 6 juni 2004 19:41, schreef Benjamin Brown:
>>  
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-08 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-06 17:41 [Qemu-devel] Booting from CD Rom - finicky? Benjamin Brown
2004-06-06 17:44 ` Sander Nagtegaal
2004-06-06 17:52   ` Benjamin Brown
2004-06-08 21:17     ` Benjamin Brown [this message]
2004-06-08 21:22       ` Hetz Ben Hamo
2004-06-08 21:26       ` Bartosz Fabianowski

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