I am trying to boot a Mac OS 10.4 install DVD, but it fails with this error :
Boot failed: Could not read from CDROM (code 0005)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: qemu-kvm 1.0+noroms-0ubuntu14.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-31.50-generic-pae 3.2.28
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-31-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 10 01:09:45 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64
KvmCmdLine:
UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD
pierre 16809 16144 11 117663 16368 0 01:08 pts/0 00:00:08 kvm -cdrom /dev/cdrom -boot d OSX.img
MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBook2,1
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=fr_FR:en
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-31-generic-pae root=UUID=c2be4ec7-8fb8-4ddd-8435-3e42cd8992bb ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: qemu-kvm
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-27 (165 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 06/27/07
dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.bios.version: MB21.88Z.00A5.B07.0706270922
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: Mac-F4208CAA
dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.board.version: PVT
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Mac-F4208CAA
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMB21.88Z.00A5.B07.0706270922:bd06/27/07:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBook2,1:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-F4208CAA:rvrPVT:cvnAppleInc.:ct10:cvrMac-F4208CAA:
dmi.product.name: MacBook2,1
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.
Thanks for reporting this bug.
Are you able to boot from other cds (i.e. an ubuntu or windows install cd)?
Is the Mac OS 10.4 cd for x86 targets? If it is for powerpc, then you need to use qemu-system-ppc or qemu-system-ppc64 instead.