Commit b7a9e964 authored Oct 01, 2019 by Thomas Huth Committed by Laurent Vivier Oct 21, 2019

qemu-doc: Remove paragraph about requiring a HD image with -kernel



The need for specifying "-hda" together with "-kernel" has been removed in
commit 57a46d05 ("Convert linux bootrom to external rom and fw_cfg"),
almost 10 years ago, so let's remove this description from our documentation
now, too.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20191001110111.4870-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>

parent e9d42461

qemu-doc.texi

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		@@ -906,10 +906,6 @@ Use @option{-kernel} to provide the Linux kernel image and
		@option{-append} to give the kernel command line arguments. The
		@option{-initrd} option can be used to provide an INITRD image.

		When using the direct Linux boot, a disk image for the first hard disk
		@file{hda} is required because its boot sector is used to launch the
		Linux kernel.

		If you do not need graphical output, you can disable it and redirect
		the virtual serial port and the QEMU monitor to the console with the
		@option{-nographic} option. The typical command line is: