Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1013888] Re: windows xp sp3 setup blank screen on boot

[Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:49:36PM -0000, Michael Sabino wrote:
> Qemu 1.0.1 - Doesn't have a problem 
> Qemu 1.1.0 - has the problem
> Qemu master commit eb2aeacf983a2a88a2b31e8fee067c38bd10abd3 - has the problem

I was also able to reproduce with commit:

eb2aeacf983a2a88a2b31e8fee067c38bd10abd3

The problem appears to have been fixed upstream though. A reverse bisect
points to this patch being the fix:

commit c52acf60b6c12ff5eb58eb6ac568c159ae0c8737
Author: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Jun 13 15:43:11 2012 +0200

    fdc: fix implied seek while there is no media in drive
    
    The Windows uses 'READ' command at the start of an instalation
    without checking the 'dir' register. We have to abort the transfer
    with an abnormal termination if there is no media in the drive.
    
    Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

Please try your scenario again using that commit, and if all if it does the
trick we'll get it included in the next stable-1.1 release.

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> Title:
>   windows xp sp3 setup blank screen on boot
> 
> Status in QEMU:
>   New
> 
> Bug description:
>   When attempting to run Windows XP SP3 setup in qemu on a Lubuntu host
>   with the following kernel:
> 
>   Linux michael-XPS-M1530 3.2.0-23-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 10
>   20:39:51 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
>   Qemu does not get past a blank screen after "Setup is inspecting your
>   computer's hardware configuration"
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