added functioning ramdisk, makefile support

[palacios.git] / palacios / build / NOTES-QEMU.TXT

diff --git a/palacios/build/NOTES-QEMU.TXT b/palacios/build/NOTES-QEMU.TXT
index 92227e2..fbd3d60 100644 (file)
--- a/palacios/build/NOTES-QEMU.TXT
+++ b/palacios/build/NOTES-QEMU.TXT
@@ -25,3 +25,15 @@ mkisofs -pad -b <floppy_image> -R -o <iso_output_image> <floppy_image>
 
 
 /usr/local/qemu/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -serial file:serial.out -m 1024 -fda vmm.img  -cdrom guest_no_timer.iso
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+Creating a grub based bootable cd ISO image:
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+mkidr iso
+mkdir -p iso/boot/grub
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+get "menu.lst" and "stage2_eltorito" from the grub files located in vmm-tools/others
+copy menu.lst and stage2_eltorito into iso/boot/grub
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+mkisofs -R -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o test.iso iso