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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Qemu-devel Digest, Vol 14, Issue 38
From: Leigh Dyer <leigh@eclinic.com.au>
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On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 12:40 +0200, Bob Barry wrote:
> Leigh -
> 
> On Wed, 2004-05-19, you wrote:
> > I also tried > booting a Win2k system, but it failed with an
> > INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error (common when
> > trying to transplant a Win2k system in to a new PC)
> 
> I just encountered the INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error
> while trying to install WINNT4 using today's CVS, and Vaclav
> reported the same yesterday.  Is there a workaround for it?
> 
Not that I know of - it usually means that the OS doesn't have drivers
for, or hasn't properly detected, the IDE controller. I haven't been
able to get my preinstalled Win2k system to boot on the PCI bus yet
(though I haven't tried much yet), and an attempt to install a fresh
Win2k system with PCI enabled yesterday got just over halfway through
the hardware probe and then moved no further (well, in the three hours
or so that I ran it).

I also tried installing NT4, but it failed before getting to any
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE messages - the first-stage installer, after
detecting the IDE controller, failed to see any drives connected to the
controller.

Thanks
Leigh