On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 2:57 AM, Thomas Huth <h...@tuxfamily.org> wrote:
> On 08.05.2017 06:22, Carl Karsten wrote:
> > neat. missed that.
> >
> > except it doesn't work.
> >
> > juser@gator:~/temp$ qemu-system-x86_64 -drive
> > file=boot.img,format=raw,bootindex=1
> > qemu-system-x86_64: -drive file=boot.img,format=raw,bootindex=1: Block
> > format 'raw' does not support the option 'bootindex'
>
> bootindex is a property of the "-device" parameter, not of "-drive", so
> you've got to specify both parameters here (with "if=none" for -drive).
> See bootindex.txt for details.
>
got it. Thank you and IRC folks for this:
qemu-system-x86_64 -m 256 \
-drive file=disk.cow,index=0 \
-drive file=/dev/sdb,index=1,format=raw,if=none,id=thumb \
-device ide-hd,drive=thumb,bootindex=1
>
> Thomas
>
> > On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 9:02 PM, Thomas Huth <h...@tuxfamily.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On 07.05.2017 07:42, Carl Karsten wrote:
> >>> In the real world I will have a machine with a sata hd and boot the
> >>> installer from a usb stick. I want to test this with 2 disk image
> files.
> >>>
> >>> The usb stick will be built like so:
> >>> https://github.com/CarlFK/video-stack-deploy/blob/
> >> usbstick/scripts/mk_usb_installer.sh
> >>>
> >>> but this will demo the problem I have run into with qemu: how do I
> boot
> >>> from boot.img without using boot=menu?
> >>
> >> Have you already tried to use the bootindex property? See:
> >>
> >> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=blob;f=docs/bootindex.txt
> >>
> >> Thomas
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
--
Carl K
