[Qemu-discuss] Trouble booting BIOS Hello World: No bootable device.

[Andrew Pennebaker]

I'm writing a Hello World program for BIOS x86, based on Alex Weber's evilmaid code. My code assembles fine, but when I try to run the binary in qemu, it says No bootable device:

$ nasm -f bin hello.asm

$ qemu-system-i386 -curses -no-kvm -fda hello

PXE loading messages...

No bootable device

What am I doing wrong?

Specs:

* nasm 2.09.10

* qemu 1.0

* Ubuntu 12.04

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Cheers,

Andrew Pennebaker

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