From: Soren Hansen <soren@ubuntu.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] wrong bios.bin file in Ubuntu Linux 7.10 causes blue screen on w2k guest
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:18:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071122091837.GD3975@atlas.linux2go.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47452AE4.1080700@alpharesearch.de>
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On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 02:08:20AM -0500, Markus Schulz wrote:
> Today I installed Ubuntu 7.10 and I thought I could just copy the file
> over and everything would work. But the image did not start at first,
> I always got a blue screen at the boot up. After some hours of trying
> I found out the the BIOS file on Linux was only 64KB large and the
> BIOS file on Windows 128KB. After I copied the file from Windows to
> Linux I was able to use the w2k image under Linux. I didn't find
> anything about this problem here or somewhere else, I'm not sure what
> is going on.
Ubuntu and Debian use the bios from the Bochs project. I'm not sure
where the bios.bin shipped inside qemu (and is probably used in most
other places) comes from or what it's built from?
--
Soren Hansen
Ubuntu Server Team
http://www.ubuntu.com/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-22 9:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-22 7:08 [Qemu-devel] wrong bios.bin file in Ubuntu Linux 7.10 causes blue screen on w2k guest Markus Schulz
2007-11-22 9:18 ` Soren Hansen [this message]
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2007-11-22 18:47 Markus Schulz
2007-11-23 9:13 ` Soren Hansen
2007-11-23 13:48 ` andrzej zaborowski
2007-11-23 15:20 ` Soren Hansen
2007-11-26 8:43 ` Soren Hansen
2007-11-23 15:10 ` Thiemo Seufer
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