On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 08:57:58PM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > Qemu running on OpenBSD 3.7/3.8 looks like the > greatest thing since sliced bread, but I am having > no success getting the 3.7 qemu package to boot > from the OpenBSD 3.7 cdrom, although qemu works > fine with the openbsd3.7.img file from free.os.zoo.com. > Man qemu says that qemu should boot from a real > cdrom with the following command: > > qemu -boot d -cdrom /dev/cdrom -hda x.img > > where x.img is a 10G file created by qemu-img create. > > Since there is no /dev/cdrom on a stock Openbsd, > I tried using /dev/cd0a instead, but to no avail. > I have tried the above command using /dev/cd0a > instead of /dev/cdrom in user mode, > with sudo, and as root. Nothing worked. > > Any suggestions for getting qemu to boot from the > OpenBSD cdrom will be greatly appreciated.
I did it by making a CD image first. See dd(1). I'm not sure if booting directly from the device will work. -Ray-
