Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU boot failed from harddisk: Could not read boot disk

[Rob Landley]

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 boot
> disk".

Yeah, the current qemu -git was broken by this commit:

9dfd7c7a00dd700de36ca58005a7cb3934a62efb is first bad commit
commit 9dfd7c7a00dd700de36ca58005a7cb3934a62efb
Author: Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden>
Date:   Wed Jul 22 16:43:04 2009 +0200

    switch -drive to QemuOpts.
    
    Demo QemuOpts in action ;)
    
    Implementing a alternative way to specify the filename should be
    just a few lines of code now once we decided how the cmd line syntax
    should look like.
    
    Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden>
    Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>

I found this out by attempting to install a Fedora 11 image this morning, 
with:

  qemu -m 512 -hda fedora-11.img -cdrom Fedora-11-i686-Live.iso -boot d

Current qemu can't do that.  The one before the above commit could.

Rob
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