[arch-releng] archiso boot fail from cdrom (Was [PATCH 1/3] [syslinux-iso] ....

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

  On 06/30/2010 05:45 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 30.06.2010 02:13, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi:
>
>>> I am doing some tests, and qemu cdrom seems to works as expected if
>>> more than one cd-rom drive is used but fails with only one cd-rom drive.
>> ignore me.
>>
>> Fails on IDE cdrom (default used when -cdrom parameter is used), but
>> works with SCSI cdrom (-drive
>> file=archlinux-2010.06.29-netinstall-i686.iso,if=scsi,media=cdrom,boot)
> Does it work on virtio cdrom?
>
virtio cd-rom is not currently implemented in qemu. (I "discovered" 
while using new testiso script :P)
Booting with if=virtio,media=cdrom is like doing with media=disk.

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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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