Re: [Qemu-devel] harddrives and QEMU

[Brett Henley <mare@shires.org>]

Jim C. Brown wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 01:22:33PM -0500, Brett (Mare) Henley wrote:
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>>  The Longer one goes into greater detail. WaxDragon's first suggestion 
>>was to use -hdachs to define the drive for the bios. I had to read up 
>>well to do this but entered 65383,16,63 as my definition and still ended 
>>up with exactly the same behavior.
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>-hdachs doesn't make a difference, unless the OS reads the size of the
>hard disk from the bios.
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>If it gets its size from the MBR or partition table, it won't help at all.
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>There is probably a way to force freebsd into using a certain size or c/h/s
>value for the hard disk. I recommend trying this to see if its just the bad
>disk size thats causing problems.
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Alright, but here's the rub. If a drive can be booted by a machine. Why 
can't it boot from Qemu if it's accessing the raw disk via the windows 
interface? This needs no messing with bios or disksize to boot of a 
regular machine.