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Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 12:20:28 +0200
From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] using partition images
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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