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Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu Booting a PC without an MBR?


From: Richard W.M. Jones
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu Booting a PC without an MBR?
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 14:00:29 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10)

Actually assuming it's a Linux guest, a third option would be:

(3) Use an external kernel + initrd:

guestfish -a disk.img -i
><fs> download /boot/vmlinuz-... /tmp/kernel
><fs> download /boot/initrd-... /tmp/initrd

qemu -kernel /tmp/kernel -initrd /tmp/initrd -hda disk.img ...

Rich.

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