From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ENUU3-0004JP-2v for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:04:23 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ENUTz-0004GN-Kn for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:04:21 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ENUTx-0004F8-M5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:04:18 -0400 Received: from [128.8.10.163] (helo=po1.wam.umd.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ENUTx-0003j6-LL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:04:17 -0400 Received: from jbrown.mylinuxbox.org (jma-box.student.umd.edu [129.2.253.219]) by po1.wam.umd.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j96C4FLA003064 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 08:04:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 08:03:03 -0400 From: "Jim C. Brown" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] harddrives and QEMU Message-ID: <20051006120303.GA32217@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> References: <434419E9.7070800@shires.org> <20051005213402.GA24303@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> <43445E7D.2090803@shires.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43445E7D.2090803@shires.org> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 06:15:09PM -0500, Brett Henley wrote: > 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. > Good question. It shouldn't. Clearly something is going wonky. Incidently, can you boot the puppy linux drive on the bare hardware? Or does that only work in qemu? -- Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty. Infinite precision begets infinite perfection.