Evan Felix wrote:
The Current way to boot a kernel and initrd is to use an option ROM,
Currently, the block infrastructure has this nasty hack that allows you
to set an override of the first sector of the disk (which is the boot
sector). It has the appropriate magic to do this in such a w
The Current way to boot a kernel and initrd is to use an option ROM,
bt it still needs a boot sector to hand to the bios so that it knows
where the code got loaded into ram. This patch makes a fake one just
before its needed.
I never though of the /dev/null trick. :)
Evan
On 7/25/07, Anthony
Evan Felix wrote:
Folks here is a patch i've made for qemu that adds a memory based
block device, it utilizes memory on the Host side to emulate a block
device.
I often use -hda /dev/null for -kernel/-append.
If you really want to implement a "proper" solution for -kernel/-append,
I think
