Failure to boot CDROM with -drive arg

2008-07-08 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
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 With the 2nd though, the initial CDROM syslinux loads, but fails

Re: Failure to boot CDROM with -drive arg

2008-07-08 Thread Laurent Vivier
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

Re: Failure to boot CDROM with -drive arg

2008-07-08 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 10:48:18AM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote: 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

Re: Failure to boot CDROM with -drive arg

2008-07-08 Thread Soren Hansen
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 09:37:30AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: 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

Re: Failure to boot CDROM with -drive arg

2008-07-08 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 11:17:24AM +0200, Soren Hansen wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 09:37:30AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: 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

Re: Failure to boot CDROM with -drive arg

2008-07-08 Thread Laurent Vivier
Le mardi 08 juillet 2008 à 11:17 +0200, Soren Hansen a écrit : On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 09:37:30AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: 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

Re: Failure to boot CDROM with -drive arg

2008-07-08 Thread Laurent Vivier
Le mardi 08 juillet 2008 à 10:21 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange a écrit : On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 11:17:24AM +0200, Soren Hansen wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 09:37:30AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: The following two command lines should be identical from the user's point of view:

Re: Failure to boot CDROM with -drive arg

2008-07-08 Thread Anthony Liguori
Daniel P. Berrange wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 11:17:24AM +0200, Soren Hansen wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 09:37:30AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: The following two command lines should be identical from the user's point of view: # qemu-kvm -cdrom /home/berrange/boot.iso

Re: Failure to boot CDROM with -drive arg

2008-07-08 Thread Laurent Vivier
Le mardi 08 juillet 2008 à 08:01 -0500, Anthony Liguori a écrit : Daniel P. Berrange wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 11:17:24AM +0200, Soren Hansen wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 09:37:30AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: The following two command lines should be identical from

Re: Failure to boot CDROM with -drive arg

2008-07-08 Thread Anthony Liguori
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,