How to make a bootable hard disk image?

[Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:05 PM, horseriver <horserivers at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 03:09:00PM +0700, Mulyadi Santosa wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 4:44 AM, horseriver <horserivers at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:51:36PM +0700, Mulyadi Santosa wrote:
> > >> 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.
> > >
> > >   The path?
> > >   How to write the path? You mean the virtual machine can share
> physical
> > >   hard disk with the host ,without its own hard disk image ?
> >
> > assume your virtual disk image is in /tmp/guest.img.
> >
> > Kernel is /tmp/kernel-image. Initrd is /tmp/initrd
> >
> > Usually, I invoke it this way:
> > qemu -kernel /tmp/kernel-image -initrd /tmp/initrd -hda /tmp/guest.img
>
>   thanks!
>   how does the /tmp/kernel-image made ?
>
> Really?
your bzImage is your kernel-image.

>
> >
> > Hope you got the idea....
> >
> >
> > --
> > regards,
> >
> > Mulyadi Santosa
> > Freelance Linux trainer and consultant
> >
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> >
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Thank you
Warm Regards
Anuz
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