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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:16:58 +0400
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU boot failed from harddisk: Could not read boot
	disk
From: Igor Kovalenko <igor.v.kovalenko@gmail.com>
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To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Peng Huang <shawn.p.huang@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Rob Landley<rob@landley.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 July 2009 20:14:38 Peng Huang wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just updated my qemu to git head version, and I found the qemu can not
>> boot now, and the QEMU gives me message "Boot failed: could not read boo=
t
>> disk".
>
> Yeah, the current qemu -git was broken by this commit:
>
> 9dfd7c7a00dd700de36ca58005a7cb3934a62efb is first bad commit
> commit 9dfd7c7a00dd700de36ca58005a7cb3934a62efb
> Author: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
> Date: =A0 Wed Jul 22 16:43:04 2009 +0200
>
> =A0 =A0switch -drive to QemuOpts.
>
> =A0 =A0Demo QemuOpts in action ;)
>
> =A0 =A0Implementing a alternative way to specify the filename should be
> =A0 =A0just a few lines of code now once we decided how the cmd line synt=
ax
> =A0 =A0should look like.
>
> =A0 =A0Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
> =A0 =A0Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
>
> I found this out by attempting to install a Fedora 11 image this morning,
> with:
>
> =A0qemu -m 512 -hda fedora-11.img -cdrom Fedora-11-i686-Live.iso -boot d
>
> Current qemu can't do that. =A0The one before the above commit could.
>

Please check if the following patch fixes this issue:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-07/msg02221.html

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Kind regards,
Igor V. Kovalenko