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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

Sent this yesterday but it seems not to have made it to the list somehow. 
Apologies if it gets posted twice.

On Sat, 6 May 2006, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> James Miller wrote:
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > qemu -fda dos.img -hdc /dev/hda3 -hdd /dev/hda4
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Have you actually tried that?  It works for floppies
> (eg -fda /dev/fd0), but I couldn't get it work with HDs
> (-hda /dev/hda) or with HD partitions (-hda /dev/hda1).

Well, come to think of it I don't think I have.  The machine on which I've 
worked most extensively with qemu doesn't even have a free partition with which 
to try this, so I guess I'd have to set up some test machine to even test it 
out.  I have definitely been able to specify booting from the computer's CD 
drive (/dev/hdd) this way though.  For example

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qemu /path/to/freedos.dsk -cdrom /dev/hdd -boot d
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boots with the qemu disk image freedos.dsk as the hard drive but, if a bootable 
CD is in the tray, from the CD.  I've just tried it to confirm. Seems like it 
should work similarly with a physical hard drive but, as I said, I don't think 
I've actually tried that.  If I get a chance to test it I'll report back with 
results.

James