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

[Peng Huang]

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". And I also found if I put the line '-drive if=ide,index=0,media=disk,format=qcow2,file=winxp.qcow2' before 'drive if=ide,index=2,media=cdrom,file=$CDROM \', the boot will be OK.

Below is my qemu start script.
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QEMU="/home/phuang/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm"
# QEMU="qemu-kvm"
CDROM=/dev/cdrom1
ARGS=" \
    -M pc -m 1G -smp 1 -name winxp \
    -localtime \
    -k en-us \
    -boot cda \
    -usbdevice tablet \
    -soundhw es1370 \
    -net nic,model=virtio,macaddr=54:52:00:14:35:9b,vlan=0 \
    -net tap,vlan=0,ifname=tap1,script=qemu-ifup \
    -drive if=ide,index=2,media=cdrom,file=$CDROM \
    -drive if=ide,index=0,media=disk,format=qcow2,file=winxp.qcow2 \
    $*"