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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory QEMU not booting my image Post 302484689 by Corona688 on Sunday 2nd of January 2011 07:57:37 PM

01-02-2011

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Originally Posted by neur0n

But when it come to booting an image that I created, it just doesn't work. I have tried creating an image with only the grub files, and qemu does not seem to even recognize the image as a bootable image.

Please tell us exactly how you're running qemu, word for word, letter for letter, keystroke for keystroke.

There's more to using grub than just putting the files on it. How did you install grub? again: word for word, letter for letter, keystroke for keystroke.

You might also be putting the files one dir in too deep, boot/grub/ instead of just grub/. I often see people make a symlink boot -> . so they can put them directly in grub, letting either option work.

For that matter, I can't remember ever seeing grub used in a situation without partitions, and I'm not sure where to proceed on that. You might do better to get an image for a working grub floppy, or perhaps a USB booting thing, then modify it to your needs.

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grub

GRUB(8) 								FSF								   GRUB(8)

NAME

       grub - the grub shell

SYNOPSIS

       grub [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION

       Enter the GRand Unified Bootloader command shell.

       --batch
	      turn on batch mode for non-interactive use

       --boot-drive=DRIVE
	      specify stage2 boot_drive [default=0x0]

       --config-file=FILE
	      specify stage2 config_file [default=/boot/grub/menu.lst]

       --device-map=FILE
	      use the device map file FILE

       --help display this message and exit

       --hold wait until a debugger will attach

       --install-partition=PAR
	      specify stage2 install_partition [default=0x20000]

       --no-config-file
	      do not use the config file

       --no-curses
	      do not use curses

       --no-floppy
	      do not probe any floppy drive

       --no-pager
	      do not use internal pager

       --preset-menu
	      use the preset menu

       --probe-second-floppy
	      probe the second floppy drive

       --read-only
	      do not write anything to devices

       --verbose
	      print verbose messages

       --version
	      print version information and exit

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>.

SEE ALSO

       update-grub(8), grub-install(8).

       The  full documentation for grub is maintained as a Texinfo manual in the grub-legacy-doc package.  If the info and grub programs are prop-
       erly installed at your site, the command

	      info grub

       should give you access to the complete manual.

grub (GNU GRUB 0.97)						   January 2013 							   GRUB(8)