On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 07:02:34PM +0100, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having the following boot order problem using an SCSI option ROM: > > Command line: > /root/download/qemu/git/qemu-kvm/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 > -drive file=1.img,media=disk,if=scsi,bus=0,unit=0 > -drive file=2.img,media=disk,if=scsi,bus=0,unit=1 > -drive file=3.img,media=disk,if=scsi,bus=0,unit=2 > -drive file=4.img,media=disk,if=scsi,bus=0,unit=3 > -cdrom KNOPPIX_V6.2CD-2009-11-18-DE.iso > -boot order=c -m 256 -k de -vga vmware -vnc :0 > -bios /root/download/seabios/git/seabios/out/bios.bin -option-rom > BIOS/8xx_64.rom > -net nic,model=rtl8139,macaddr=1a:46:0b:ca:bc:7c > -net tap,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=no > > Still boots the cdrom instead of harddisk. So it is impossible to > have a bootable CDROM in the VM without booting from it. > > Going into boot menu (-boot order=c,menu=on)and selecting HD works well. > Any ideas to fix it?
There is a "bootindex" option that can be passed to the "-device" parameter of QEMU. This option give more fine grained control of boot order. However, the default should have been to boot from a harddrive first, so I'm not sure why you see the cdrom first. You could add the following to the QEMU command line to see the seabios debugging info: -chardev stdio,id=seabios -device isa-debugcon,iobase=0x402,chardev=seabios -Kevin
