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qemu-doc: Remove paragraph about requiring a HD image with -kernel

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The need for specifying "-hda" together with "-kernel" has been removed in
commit 57a46d0579 ("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 <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20191001110111.4870-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
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Thomas Huth 2019-10-01 13:01:11 +02:00 committed by Laurent Vivier
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@ -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: