Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu for macosx can't boot linux partition

[Mike Kronenberg]

Just from my experienc with using CD-ROM under OS X:

say You want partition 1 of disk 5

You dont need the: /dev/disk5s1
But: /dev/rdisk5s1 wich is a raw access

Mike

Enric Pedascoll Quingles wrote:

> well, now i have running macosX.4 and i want to start a qemu session
> with a Debian partition, i know that macos partition is disk0s5 but
> all other partitions are Debian (swap, root, home ...), i try to boot
> all the disk /dev/disk0 and select Debian in a yaboot but when i type
> qemu -hda /dev/disk0, qemu crash
>
>
> On 9/28/05, Jonas Maebe <address@hidden> wrote:
>  
>
> > On 28 sep 2005, at 16:29, Enric Pedascoll Quingles wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > i try to boot a fisical mac's partition with qemu but i don't obtain
> > > good results
> > > i have read in documentation files that the command is:
> > >
> > > ~#qemu -snapshot -hda /dev/(your disk)
> > >
> > > i try several way with the same result
> > >
> > > ~#qemu -snapshot -hda /dev/hda
> > > ~#qemu -snapshot -hda /dev/disk0
> > > ~#qemu -snapshot -hda /dev/hda0s1..s2...s5
> > >
> > > and nothing...
> > >      
> > Under Mac OS X, partitions are available as /dev/diskXsY and not /dev/
> > hdXsY. Your boot partition /dev/disk0sY, other disks can get a
> > different number after every reboot.
> >
> > You can find the device name of a partition (under Mac OS X 10.4.x at
> > least) by opening /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility, selecting a
> > partition and choosing File->Get Info.
> >
> >
> > Jonas
> >
> >    
>
>
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