On Thursday 15 February 2007 09:17, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Hi, > > Le Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:58:13 +0100, > > "andrzej zaborowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > Subject: don't require a disk image for network boot > > BTW, is there a reason why a disk image is required when using the > -kernel option ? > > In the following case: -kernel vmlinuz -append "nfsroot=blabla", we > could boot over the network, without the need for any disk image, but > Qemu wants to have a disk image. Is it mandatory ?
The BIOS doesn't know about the -kernel option, so qemu replaces the first sector of the disk image with a dummy bootloader that jumps to the preloaded kernel. It can only do that if there is an image to replace. Paul _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
