Re: [Qemu-devel] Booting a guest with OVMF

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 06/10/14 19:16, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 06:26:50PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>> On 06/10/14 18:10, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> 
> [. . .]
> 
>>> The USB stick is created with Fedora Rawhide image using this
>>> script: http://people.freedesktop.org/~kay/installer/installer.sh
>>>
>>>     $ sudo ./installer.sh /dev/sdb
>>>
>>> Then, invoke QEMU.
>>
>> That script is exactly what I don't want to run :) Can you upload the
>> result somewhere?
> 
> Yes, I can, but will have to wait till tomorrow -- the contents of the
> script came down to 1.6G after trying to make an ISO as below.
> 
>     $ sudo dd bs=1k if=/dev/sdb2 of=fed-min2.iso conv=sparse

(1) I think you should just format the disk image into a regular file,
rather than dumping it to a USB stick, and then dumping it back from there.

(2) Even if you opt for the USB "detour", the above dd command line is
incorrect. You selected a specific partition on the USB stick as input
block device. That's wrong, we need to see the entire disk (partition
table, EFI system partition etc).

Thanks
Laszlo