Le mardi 08 juillet 2008 à 09:59 -0500, Anthony Liguori a écrit : > Laurent Vivier wrote: > > So, "boot=on" means in fact "bootable=true" > > > > I guess. I don't know that the later is more clear. I think the source > of the confusion is the entire concept of "first bootable harddisk" > which is what -boot c really means. > > FWIW, the reason media=cdrom,boot=on doesn't work, is that a CDROM's > boot record is in el torito format instead of the traditional BIOS boot > sector. > > media=cdrom,boot=on would work if the image was a disk image instead of > an ISO. > > In fact, I'm inclined to think that media=cdrom,boot=on should not be > explicitly prohibited because of this fact.
To simplify, I think qemu should ignore "boot=on" when "if=ide". Laurent -- --------- [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
