[Bug 348633] Re: Fails to boot from CD after reboot: CDROM boot failure code: 0003

[Soren Hansen]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 05:58:38AM -0000, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> I don't understand why this option should be necessary.  Following the
> steps in my original report, I would expect one of two things to
> happen:
> 
>  * The CD-ROM boot fails (because the disc is "ejected") and it falls back
>    to booting from the hard disc

You've explicitly told kvm to only boot from CD ("-boot d"). If you want
it to boot from CD, if available, and fall back to booting from the hard
drive, you should put "-boot dc".

> The workaroud you've suggested would largely satisfy my needs for
> Ubuntu testing, but I don't understand why it shouldn't just work
> intuitively as described above.

It's just like setting your BIOS up to only try to boot from CD, and
never from your hard drive.

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Fails to boot from CD after reboot: CDROM boot failure code: 0003
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348633
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