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Boot on QEMU fails on MBR disk #2

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Which hardware (Mac model or PC mainboard and processor) are you using?
Apple MacBook Pro Core Duo

Are you running in a virtualization environment? Which?
yes QEMU svn compiled myself for os x leopard with GCC 4 

What steps will reproduce the problem?

The Diskimage of Puredarwin Xmas containg the root file system  only mounts if 
it has an Apple 
Partion Map. 
I it has an MBR partition map i get "Still Waiting for Root Device" 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by tob...@platen-software.de on 23 Feb 2009 at 2:03

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The PureDarwin Xmas VMDK was made with qemu-img, which unfortunately doesn't 
produce a partition table. 
Hence, a boot loader cannot be installed into it. This is why the PureDarwin 
Xmas VMDK cannot be used 
anywhere else but on VMware Fusion 2, which comes with its own boot loader for 
Darwin (part of their support 
for Mac OS X Server).

Original comment by puredar...@googlemail.com on 9 Mar 2009 at 2:02

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Correction: [...] PureDarwin Xmas VMDK cannot be used anywhere else but on 
VMware products (including 
Server, Player and Fusion), which [...]

Original comment by Aladin.Q...@gmail.com on 10 Mar 2009 at 9:13

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
http://www.puredarwin.org/developers/qemu

Original comment by Aladin.Q...@gmail.com on 22 Mar 2009 at 8:56