How to make a bootable hard disk image?

Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
Thu Jan 31 00:51:36 EST 2013


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 2:52 AM, horseriver <horserivers at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi:)
>
>    I want to boot kernel from hard disk image ,because i am using a virtual machine .
>    How to make this bootable image   ?
>    After I  make it ,how do I put kernel Image into this image?

If you are using qemu or kvm, you don't need to put the kernel inside
the virtual machine image.

Just use -kernel (or possibly -initrd) parameter and pass the path and
file name of your kernel image and you're good to go.

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regards,

Mulyadi Santosa
Freelance Linux trainer and consultant

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