From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FI3Fn-0008NV-Pu for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:31:27 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FI3Fm-0008ND-I6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:31:27 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FI3Fm-0008NA-DL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:31:26 -0500 Received: from [195.184.98.160] (helo=virtualhost.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.52) id 1FI3JI-0006PT-92 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:35:04 -0500 Received: from [62.242.22.158] (helo=router.home.kernel.dk) by virtualhost.dk with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1FI3Fl-0008BM-00 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:31:25 +0100 Received: from nelson.home.kernel.dk ([192.168.0.33] helo=kernel.dk) by router.home.kernel.dk with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1FI3Fj-0008Ng-FQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:31:23 +0100 Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:31:15 +0100 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] smp support and ide lba48 Message-ID: <20060311123115.GA15454@suse.de> References: <200603101532.25567.mgoppold@tbz-pariv.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200603101532.25567.mgoppold@tbz-pariv.de> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Fri, Mar 10 2006, Mario Goppold wrote: > Hi, > > I try to install SuSE92-64 on an 400G HD but it fails: > > hda: max request size: 128KiB > hda: cannot use LBA48 - full capacity 838860800 sectors (429496 MB) > hda: 268435456 sectors (137438 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, (U)DMA > hda:<4>hda: lost interrupt > hda: lost interrupt > ... > > > If I switch to 32bit (in grub) it works. Here is my Env: > > Qemu: snapshot20060304 (gcc version 3.3.6) > KQemu: kqemu-1.3.0pre3 (gcc version 4.0.2, SuSE10.0, 2.6.13-15.8-smp) > > qemu-img create test.img 400G > qemu-system-x86_64 -m 512 -k de -localtime -smp 2 \ > -net nic,vlan=0,macaddr=00:01:02:03:04:05 -net tap,vlan=0 \ > -hda test.img -cdrom /dev/dvd -boot d > > If I reduce the image-size it won't better. > > Yust now I try it without "-smp 2" and see what I want "unkown partition > table ..." > > So my question is : Is lba48 not smp save or is smp support broken (or > incomplete)? lba48 support is not committed yet, read the linux messasge - it says it cannot use lba48, because the drive (qemu) doesn't support it. Find my latest posting on this list, it should get you going. -- Jens Axboe