[ale] Qemu experiences (or.....wow!)

[Ennogaddado Vito]

John Wells wrote:

>Ennogaddado Vito said:
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>>I've been toying with it, myself...  I can't get it to boot anything on
>>a floppy or in the CD drive.  I've been using variations on this command:
>>
>>qemu -boot a /dev/fd0
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>>or
>>
>>qemu -boot d /dev/cdrom
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>>
>
>Well, the -boot flag only tells it which device to boot from if you've
>specified multiple devices.  You still need to tell qemu where the cdrom
>and floppy are.
>
>Change your command to:
>
>qemu -boot a -fda /dev/fd0
>or
>qemu -boot d -cdrom /dev/cdrom
>
>Since you're only using one device, you can shorten it by removing the
>boot flag, like so:
>
>qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom
>  
>

Actually, the last value should be the disk image you plan to install 
your system to.  I made the mistake of putting "/dev/cdrom" in the final 
posistion, and couldn't figure out why Solaris install wouldn't see the 
20G img file I'd created on my hard disk- this is how I booted my 
install the last time, and everything worked fine, including Solaris 
properly finding and partitioning the .img file:

qemu -m 240 -hda solaris.img -cdrom /dev/cdrom -boot d solaris.img