From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] using partition images
Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 12:20:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <445F1B6C.70205@bellard.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060508044926.GA21951@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org>
A few ideas:
- Use an external file 'bootsect.bin' as it is done for linux_boot.bin.
- Provide the source code of the boot sector.
- Instead of copying the raw block driver, use the block driver recursively.
Fabrice.
Jim C. Brown wrote:
> On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 11:53:46PM -0400, Jim C. Brown wrote:
>
>>Known Issues:
>>
>>booting is not supported - this will require passing a separate bootsector.
>
>
> I stand corrected. New patch that adds support for booting partition images.
> Apply this on top of the first one.
>
> Also attached is the required bootsector.h (this contains the actual code of
> the bootsector).
>
> Bootsector code for the MBR was taken from http://www.cpqlinux.com/mbr.html.
>
> Also attached is a tarball of the sources I used to create bootsector.h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-08 10:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-08 3:53 [Qemu-devel] using partition images Jim C. Brown
2006-05-08 4:49 ` Jim C. Brown
2006-05-08 10:20 ` Fabrice Bellard [this message]
2006-05-08 12:26 ` Jim C. Brown
2006-05-08 12:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-05-08 13:11 ` Paul Brook
2006-05-08 14:19 ` Jim C. Brown
2006-05-08 14:28 ` Paul Brook
2006-05-08 14:59 ` Jim C. Brown
2006-05-08 15:09 ` Paul Brook
2006-05-08 14:49 ` Jim C. Brown
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