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Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu Booting a PC without an MBR?
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu Booting a PC without an MBR? |
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Fri, 30 Aug 2013 08:37:32 +0200 |
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Il 30/08/2013 08:28, Peter Lieven ha scritto:
> Hi all,
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> today I had the second incidence of a migrated system (copied with DD)
> to qemu which won't boot. (stuck after booting from harddisk message).
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> Looking at sector 0 I found out that it does not have an MBR. It seems
> that real hardware and I was told also vmware can cope with this.
Maybe because it's got a UEFI bootloader? In this case, you could try
using OVMF as the firmware with the -bios command-line option.
Paolo
> Is there a way we can improve this? (maybe be using an open source mbr
> in case the mbr section is zeroed out?)