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

[Igor Kovalenko]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Rob Landley<address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
>

Please check if the following patch fixes this issue:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-07/msg02221.html

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Kind regards,
Igor V. Kovalenko