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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] A disk read error occurred
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Alexander (Sasha) Sirotkin, le Mon 30 Jun 2008 23:23:18 +0300, a écrit :
> For some reason when I try to boot qemu with -hda /dev/sda (or -hda
> /dev/hda), i.e. to use raw disk, it fails with the above error message
> - "A disk read error occurred". This happens only on IBM/Lenovo
> laptops (tried a few models), while it works just fine on any other
> desktop or laptop I can get my hands on. Probably has something to do
> with bios...
> 
> Any suggestions ?

How big is the disk?

Samuel