How to make a bootable hard disk image?

[Paul Davies C]

May I know how can I make the initrd image for a given kernel version in
order to boot it using QEMU?


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar <
chambilkethakur at gmail.com> wrote:

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