From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46841) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VFIL5-0000gU-Fo for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 02:37:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VFIKx-0008ES-2x for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 02:37:47 -0400 Received: from mail-ee0-x22e.google.com ([2a00:1450:4013:c00::22e]:46145) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VFIKw-0008EO-S4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 02:37:39 -0400 Received: by mail-ee0-f46.google.com with SMTP id c13so693668eek.33 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 23:37:38 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <52203DAC.4040206@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 08:37:32 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <52203B8D.5030507@kamp.de> In-Reply-To: <52203B8D.5030507@kamp.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu Booting a PC without an MBR? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Lieven Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" 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?)