From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu Booting a PC without an MBR?
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 08:37:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52203DAC.4040206@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52203B8D.5030507@kamp.de>
Il 30/08/2013 08:28, Peter Lieven ha scritto:
> Hi all,
>
> today I had the second incidence of a migrated system (copied with DD)
> to qemu which won't boot. (stuck after booting from harddisk message).
>
> Looking at sector 0 I found out that it does not have an MBR. It seems
> that real hardware and I was told also vmware can cope with this.
Maybe because it's got a UEFI bootloader? In this case, you could try
using OVMF as the firmware with the -bios command-line option.
Paolo
> Is there a way we can improve this? (maybe be using an open source mbr
> in case the mbr section is zeroed out?)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-30 6:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-30 6:28 [Qemu-devel] Qemu Booting a PC without an MBR? Peter Lieven
2013-08-30 6:37 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-08-30 6:43 ` Peter Lieven
2013-08-30 11:01 ` Fam Zheng
2013-09-02 12:59 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2013-09-02 13:00 ` Richard W.M. Jones
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