[SOLVED] QEMU puppy 3.01 Not a bootable disk

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[SOLVED] QEMU puppy 3.01 Not a bootable disk

#1 Post by stevenbinion »

I'm working with the Unleashed core for Puppy Linux 3.01 as it turns out, the light distro I made works just fine when burned to a disk. But I wanted to test the ISO first using the command line ./allinoneqemu_linux /mnt/home/UNLEASHED/puppy-3.01-.iso QEMU's window came up but it didn't get very far.
Plex86/Bocks VGABios current-cvs 14 Jun 2006
This VGA/VBE Bios is released under the GNU LGPL

Please visit :
. http://bochs.sourceforge.net
. http://www.nongnu.org/vgabios

cirrus-compatible VGA is detected


QEMU BIOS - build: 11/01/06
$Revision: 1.174 $ $Date: 2006/10/17 16:4805 $
Options: apmbios pcibios eltorito rombios32

ata0 master: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-7 Hard-Disk (72 MBytes)
ata1 master: QEMU CD-ROM ATAPI-4 CD-Rom/DVD-Rom

Boot from Hard Disk 0 failed
FATAL: Not a bootable disk
Last edited by stevenbinion on Wed 02 Apr 2008, 11:29, edited 1 time in total.

Bruce B

#2 Post by Bruce B »

From this:

./allinoneqemu_linux /mnt/home/UNLEASHED/puppy-3.01-.iso

To this:

./allinoneqemu_linux -m 256 -boot d \
-cdrom /mnt/home/UNLEASHED/puppy-3.01-.iso

The red backslash is NOT necessary, you can put it all on one line, I put it there for forum display to prevent possibility of confusing word wrapping.

The -m 256 gives more memory than the 128 default, but if you don't have 256 to spare, then eliminate the -m 256 switch from my example.

The main error in your command was not identifying the .iso file as a cdrom and qemu treated it as a virtual hard disk which would of course fail because it isn't a virtual hard disk.

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#3 Post by stevenbinion »

Thank you, that works very nice, I never knew about the switches.

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