From: "Jim C. Brown" <jbrown106@phreaker.net>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] incomplete floppy images
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:28:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040728162803.GA15132@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040728140737.33927cca.jani@iv.ro>
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 02:07:37PM +0300, Jani Monoses wrote:
> Hello
> is there a requirement in qemu that images passed to -fda are exactly 1.44
> sized images?
>
> Last Friday I sent a patch fixing boot from files which don't have sizes
> multiple of 512, where the last incomplete 'sector' was ignored.
> ecos bootable applications are such examples and so is the asmutils linux boot
> disk to mention two that I found.
>
> bochs boots both of them so I had a hard time figuring out what the problem
> was in qemu's case.
>
> So unless the requirement above is true is such a patch desired?
>
> thanks
> Jani
>
>
qemu aims to be as compatible as a PC as possible ... every patch that fixes
a bug is desired.
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2004-07-28 11:07 [Qemu-devel] incomplete floppy images Jani Monoses
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