Your message dated Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:53:10 -0700 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#601281: qemu: cannot load from Debian DVD has caused the Debian Bug report #601281, regarding qemu: cannot load from Debian DVD to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: qemu Version: 0.12.5+dfsg-2 Severity: normal I've downloaded Debian Squeeze netinst image and burned it on DVD. I was able to install the main system from it. Now I'm trying to use this DVD in qemu: qemu /dev/cdrom It says that cannot find bootable device. Screenshot is attached. I am able to mount and open this DVD in a file manager. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (20, 'unstable'), (10, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages qemu depends on: ii qemu-system 0.12.5+dfsg-2 QEMU full system emulation binarie ii qemu-user 0.12.5+dfsg-2 QEMU user mode emulation binaries ii qemu-utils 0.12.5+dfsg-2 QEMU utilities qemu recommends no packages. Versions of packages qemu suggests: pn qemu-user-static <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information<<attachment: sept9.png>>
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--- Begin Message ---On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 11:59:15PM +0300, Krasu wrote: > I've downloaded Debian Squeeze netinst image and burned it on DVD. I was able > to install the main system from it. Now I'm trying to use this DVD in qemu: > > qemu /dev/cdrom > > It says that cannot find bootable device. Screenshot is attached. I am able to > mount and open this DVD in a file manager. the way you specified it, will treat it like a hard drive image. instead, try: qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom or explicitly ask it to boot from cd: qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom -boot d though to usefully install, you'll need to also create and specify a hard disk image as well: qemu-img create -c hd.img 4G qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom -hda hd.img your user will have to have read access to the device /dev/cdrom points to, of course. live well, vagrant
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