From: Thomas Huth Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 11:01:11 +0000 (+0200) Subject: qemu-doc: Remove paragraph about requiring a HD image with -kernel X-Git-Tag: v4.2.0-rc0~47^2~1 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b7a9e9647c2bf668d3014768f87ba57cb1b564ae;p=thirdparty%2Fqemu.git qemu-doc: Remove paragraph about requiring a HD image with -kernel The need for specifying "-hda" together with "-kernel" has been removed in commit 57a46d057995 ("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 Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek Message-Id: <20191001110111.4870-1-thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier --- diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi index 2ba6c90c083..3c5022050f0 100644 --- a/qemu-doc.texi +++ b/qemu-doc.texi @@ -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: