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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] don't require a disk image for network boot
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Rob Landley |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] don't require a disk image for network boot |
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Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:57:56 -0500 |
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On Thursday 15 February 2007 11:27 am, Paul Brook wrote:
> On Thursday 15 February 2007 09:17, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Le Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:58:13 +0100,
> >
> > "andrzej zaborowski" <address@hidden> a écrit :
> > > Subject: don't require a disk image for network boot
> >
> > BTW, is there a reason why a disk image is required when using the
> > -kernel option ?
> >
> > In the following case: -kernel vmlinuz -append "nfsroot=blabla", we
> > could boot over the network, without the need for any disk image, but
> > Qemu wants to have a disk image. Is it mandatory ?
>
> The BIOS doesn't know about the -kernel option, so qemu replaces the first
> sector of the disk image with a dummy bootloader that jumps to the preloaded
> kernel. It can only do that if there is an image to replace.
Yeah, but on Linux the standard workaround is to supply -hda /dev/zero, and if
qemu notices that it has -kernel but no hda, from a UI perspective qemu could
easily supply the standard workaround for itself...
Rob
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