Le mardi 08 juillet 2008 à 09:37 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange a écrit : > The following two command lines should be identical from the user's > point of view: > > # qemu-kvm -cdrom /home/berrange/boot.iso -boot d -m 500 > > # qemu-kvm -drive > file=/home/berrange/boot.iso,if=ide,media=cdrom,index=2,boot=on -m 500 >
"-cdrom /home/berrange/boot.iso" is identical to "-drive file=/home/berrange/boot.iso,index=1,media=cdrom" with if=ide by default. Could you try you command line without "boot=on" ? > With the 2nd though, the initial CDROM syslinux loads, but fails to load > the graphical menu, and also fails to boot in text mode fallback: > > 'vesamenu.c32: attempted DOS system call" > > (See screenshot: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=311221 ) > > I've reproduced this with both KVM 65 and 70, on a Fedora 9 host. The CDROM > boot.iso image I'm using here is the Fedora 9 $URL/images/boot.iso from > any standard Fedora install tree. > > I can only imagine there's something different in the way extboot sets up > the CPU/pagetables during cdrom boot, but its rather beyond my skills > > This was originally reported by a Fedora user here > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452355 > > Daniel -- --------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------- "L'avenir ne se prévoit pas, il se prépare." - Maurice Blondel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
