On 06.04.2018 20:41, Narcis Garcia wrote: > I know the "-boot d" parameter for Qemu, but it only works when optical > media is declared. > If I boot a virtual machine with primary and secondary disk imatges > (e.g. disk1.img and disk2.img in this order), how can I force Qemu > (included BIOS) to boot from second disk? > > Example scenario: disk1.img is a formatted hard disk image, and > disk2.img is an image (dd) from USB installer stick.
With certain firmware implementations, you can use the bootindex property, e.g.: qemu-system-... -drive if=none,id=dr1,file=... \ -device usb-storage,bootindex=1,drive=dr1,... HTH, Thomas