[Qemu-devel] Booting from CD Rom - finicky?

[Qemu-devel] Booting from CD Rom - finicky?

[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

Re: [Qemu-devel] Booting from CD Rom - finicky?

[Sander Nagtegaal]

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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Re: [Qemu-devel] Booting from CD Rom - finicky?

[Benjamin Brown]

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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>>    
>>
>
>
>
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Booting from CD Rom - finicky?

[Benjamin Brown]

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
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Qemu-devel mailing list
>>> Qemu-devel@nongnu.org
>>> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
>>>   
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>  
>>
>
>
>
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Booting from CD Rom - finicky?

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

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

Works both ways.

Thanks,
Hetz

Re: [Qemu-devel] Booting from CD Rom - finicky?

[Bartosz Fabianowski]

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

On my FreeBSD host, I am able to boot from actual CD-ROMs without any 
problems. So I guess it's supposed to work.

- Bartosz