Re: [Qemu-devel] Booting from CD Rom - finicky?

[Benjamin Brown]

It can boot from images - thats how I managed to install some client OS. 
It can actually boot from floppy if I specify -fda /dev/sda and -boot a .
(I have a USB floppy).

Thanks,

Benjamin

Sander Nagtegaal wrote:

> And if you make a disc image ( ISO ) of the cdrom? Does it then stil fail?
>
> Op zondag 6 juni 2004 19:41, schreef Benjamin Brown:
>  
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've installed QEMU 5.5 on Mandrake 10.0 and Windows XP and although
> > both recognise my CDRom drives after starting a client OS I can't get
> > them to boot from auto starting CDs (i.e. Windows 98 install cd).
> >
> > To start it under linux I use (windows98.img is an empty 2GB file):
> >
> > qemu -boot d -cdrom /dev/cdrom  -hda /opt/qemu/windows98.img
> >
> > I'm unsure of the parameters for windows so I've tried:
> >
> > qemu.exe --boot d --cdrom "E:\" --hda "C:\windows98.img"
> >
> > I've had no success :(
> >
> > Any help greatly appreciated,
> >
> > Benjamin
> >
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