From: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@siriusit.co.uk>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] "A disk read error occurred"
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:31:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4869F954.6000406@siriusit.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080701090815.GA564@shareable.org>
Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Yes, very similar, except I saw the problem _without_ migrating
> anything. Windows 2000 was installed _inside_ QEMU (with no special
> -hdachs setting) from its CD installer. It couldn't boot its own
> install after restarting QEMU.
>
> I looked at the partition with fdisk, then copied the c,h,s values to
> -hdachs...
>
> ...and QEMU said the values were out of range and refused to start!
>
> So I guessed some values which were not what fdisk reported, and it
> worked and booted fine.
Yeah, I went through exactly the same process with -hdachs myself :) If
you still have the broken image around, it would be interesting to
compare the CHS settings between the MBR and VBR on your QEMU-installed
copy to see what values you were getting...
ATB,
Mark.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-01 9:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-28 19:42 [Qemu-devel] "A disk read error occurred" Alexander (Sasha) Sirotkin
2008-06-29 3:48 ` Avi Kivity
2008-06-30 23:05 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-01 9:03 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2008-07-01 9:08 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-01 9:31 ` Mark Cave-Ayland [this message]
2008-07-01 21:37 ` Alexander (Sasha) Sirotkin
2008-07-02 14:34 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-02 19:39 ` Alexander (Sasha) Sirotkin
2008-07-02 19:47 ` Alexander (Sasha) Sirotkin
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