On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@freegeek.org> wrote:
> could you be more specific about the exact commandline options, .img and .iso > used? For example, `qemu -hda debian-live-6.0.1-i386-gnome-desktop.img` (image file is downloaded from live.debian.net) > if i use a working hd.img, or a working cdrom.iso, qemu boots to that. > > when i created an empty hd.img and cdrom.iso, it fails to boot, but gives > expected error messages (i.e. boot from hard disk, boot from floppy, boot from > cd...) and errors out with no bootable device. > > if i specify to do network boot (with "-boot n"), it finds pxe-e1000.bin just > fine, and boots from that. pxe-e1000.bin should be a symlink to the relevent > etherboot-qemu rom (which is a dependency of qemu-system). > "-boot n" gives the same error message. pxe-e1000.bin is located in /usr/share/qemu/pxe-e1000.bin, though I have no idea why qemu has not found it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
