Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu Booting a PC without an MBR?

[Fam Zheng]

On Fri, 08/30 08:43, Peter Lieven wrote:
> On 30.08.2013 08:37, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >Il 30/08/2013 08:28, Peter Lieven ha scritto:
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>today I had the second incidence of a migrated system (copied with DD)
> >>to qemu which won't boot. (stuck after booting from harddisk message).
> >>
> >>Looking at sector 0 I found out that it does not have an MBR. It seems
> >>that real hardware and I was told also vmware can cope with this.
> >Maybe because it's got a UEFI bootloader?  In this case, you could try
> >using OVMF as the firmware with the -bios command-line option.
> I will try, thanks for the pointer.
> 
> It seems that the partition marked as boot has a boot loader though.
> 
As a simple workaround you could boot with a GRUB iso and chainload the
partition, when you are in the guest OS, fix the MBR.

Fam