qemu-e2k/docs/system/linuxboot.rst
Peter Maydell d6359e150d docs: Remove unused weirdly-named cross-reference targets
In the doc sources, we have a few cross-reference targets with odd
names "pcsys_005fxyz".  These are the legacy of the semi-automated
conversion of the old info docs to rST (the '005f' is because ASCII
0x5f is '_' and the old info link names had underscores in them).

Remove the targets which nothing links to, and rename the two targets
which are used to something a bit more descriptive.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-id: 20230421163642.1151904-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2023-05-12 15:43:38 +01:00

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.. _direct_005flinux_005fboot:
Direct Linux Boot
-----------------
This section explains how to launch a Linux kernel inside QEMU without
having to make a full bootable image. It is very useful for fast Linux
kernel testing.
The syntax is:
.. parsed-literal::
|qemu_system| -kernel bzImage -hda rootdisk.img -append "root=/dev/hda"
Use ``-kernel`` to provide the Linux kernel image and ``-append`` to
give the kernel command line arguments. The ``-initrd`` option can be
used to provide an INITRD image.
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
``-nographic`` option. The typical command line is:
.. parsed-literal::
|qemu_system| -kernel bzImage -hda rootdisk.img \
-append "root=/dev/hda console=ttyS0" -nographic
Use Ctrl-a c to switch between the serial console and the monitor (see
:ref:`GUI_keys`).