iso to hdd booting.

[Sthu Deus <sthu.deus@gmail.com>]

Good time of the day.

I'm trying to transfer a bootable image to a HDD - to boot from it as
if from the image, this way:

cat ./boot.iso > /dev/sdb
sync

Then I try to boot from it in KVM having specified at command line:
-hda /dev/sdb -boot c

but it does not boot.

Using fdisk shows me partitioning at all - that i suppose should not to
be.

Is it workable way i have undertaken? Or I can achieve it only
installing a linux on HDD and then make it loading from its boot loader
having transferred the image to a partition (cat ./boot.iso
> /dev/sdb1)?


Thanks for Your time.

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