Re: [Qemu-devel] using partition images

[Fabrice Bellard]

A few ideas:

- Use an external file 'bootsect.bin' as it is done for linux_boot.bin.
- Provide the source code of the boot sector.
- Instead of copying the raw block driver, use the block driver recursively.

Fabrice.

Jim C. Brown wrote:
> On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 11:53:46PM -0400, Jim C. Brown wrote:
>
> > Known Issues:
> >
> > booting is not supported - this will require passing a separate bootsector.
>
>
> I stand corrected. New patch that adds support for booting partition images.
> Apply this on top of the first one.
>
> Also attached is the required bootsector.h (this contains the actual code of
> the bootsector).
>
> Bootsector code for the MBR was taken from http://www.cpqlinux.com/mbr.html.
>
> Also attached is a tarball of the sources I used to create bootsector.h