Re: [Qemu-devel] booting a linux kernel from NFS

[Markus Schiltknecht]

Rob Landley wrote:
> Because the way -kernel works is to create a fake bootsector internally, 
> present it to the bios as the start of hda, and tell the bios to boot from 
> that.  If you haven't got an hda, it gets confused.  (It probably shouldn't, 
> since it's not actually _using_ it, but it does.)
>
> Note that if you mmap /dev/zero it counts as an anonymous mapping, so feeding 
> in /dev/zero for hda works just fine here.

Thank you, that works. And it's always good to know how it works.

Regards

Markus