Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Allow -kernel without -hda

2006-05-01 Thread Fabrice Bellard
I agree that the feature is useful, but your patch is incomplete: without bs_table[0], the boot sector cannot be created and the Linux kernel cannot be launched. Maybe you have a specific Ethernet BIOS to enable that ? Someone submitted a new block driver which simulated "/dev/zero" and it may

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Allow -kernel without -hda

2006-04-30 Thread Ed Swierk
The qemu -kernel option currently requires specifying a hard disk image with -hda. Ostensibly at least one hard disk is needed for qemu's boot loader to populate the partition table in its array of boot sectors. Passing -hda /dev/zero tricks qemu into booting, which demonstrates that the requirem