From: aurel32 <aurel32@c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:52:22 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: PC: suggest a workaround to boot a kernel without hard-disk
X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f97572e5ab450682bebc65310b82c100e56ac219;p=qemu.git

PC: suggest a workaround to boot a kernel without hard-disk

Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>

git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@5061 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
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diff --git a/hw/pc.c b/hw/pc.c
index 880e57f233..213ead8555 100644
--- a/hw/pc.c
+++ b/hw/pc.c
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ static void generate_bootsect(uint32_t gpr[8], uint16_t segs[6], uint16_t ip)
     hda = drive_get_index(IF_IDE, 0, 0);
     if (hda == -1) {
 	fprintf(stderr, "A disk image must be given for 'hda' when booting "
-		"a Linux kernel\n");
+		"a Linux kernel\n(if you really don't want it, use /dev/zero)\n");
 	exit(1);
     }