[Qemu-devel] Cannot start windows xp

[Qemu-devel] Cannot start windows xp

[Ashish Naik]

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Hi,

I installed windows xp without any problem. However, xp doesnot start and
the message is ŒDisk Error press any key to restart¹. What could be the
reason?
Also,

Is network connection required while running qemu?

If I start Qemu without connecting to network, it says DNS error or
something

Thanks and Regards,
Ashish Naik


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Re: [Qemu-devel] Cannot start windows xp

[Michael McConnell]

Ashish Naik wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed windows xp without any problem. However, xp doesnot start 
> and the message is ‘Disk Error press any key to restart’. What could be 
> the reason?

I ran into this with WinNT4, trying to use disc images bigger than 1023/16/63 
(504Mb).

My workaround to this has to always specify the -hdachs settings, in my case 
4092/16/63 for a nearly 2Gb disc.

With a completely blank disc image, its internals returned 4092/16/63, but 
after partitioning and formatting, it used 1023/64/63, which clashed with the 
old settings which were used at the time of writing the boot sector.

To confuse the issue further, specifying -hdachs 1023/64/63 caused the NT 
installer to freeze for a bit, then claim the disc was unusable...

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Re: [Qemu-devel] Cannot start windows xp

[Brian Tinnel]

I installed XP Professional under QEMU (host is debian) with no
problem using a 2GB raw image.  I then had problems trying to apply
SP2 because I ran out of disk space, so I created a 3GB raw image,
reinstalled XP, and then installed SP2 without any problems.  I am
using a CVS image from around Dec 19.


On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 12:46:46 +0000, Michael McConnell
<soruk@eridani.co.uk> wrote:
> Ashish Naik wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I installed windows xp without any problem. However, xp doesnot start
> > and the message is 'Disk Error press any key to restart'. What could be
> > the reason?
> 
> I ran into this with WinNT4, trying to use disc images bigger than 1023/16/63
> (504Mb).
> 
> My workaround to this has to always specify the -hdachs settings, in my case
> 4092/16/63 for a nearly 2Gb disc.
> 
> With a completely blank disc image, its internals returned 4092/16/63, but
> after partitioning and formatting, it used 1023/64/63, which clashed with the
> old settings which were used at the time of writing the boot sector.
> 
> To confuse the issue further, specifying -hdachs 1023/64/63 caused the NT
> installer to freeze for a bit, then claim the disc was unusable...
> 
> --
> -- Michael "Soruk" McConnell
> Eridani MailStripper - http://mailstripper.eridani.co.uk - Uncovers Everything!
> 
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RE: [Qemu-devel] Cannot start windows xp

[Ashish Naik]

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Hi,

I can now get into XP setup but after clicking Install Windows xp, there is
no progress. Qemu does not seem to use CPU that means nothing is happening.

Any idea why?

 
Regards,
Ashish Naik
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To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Cannot start windows xp


I installed XP Professional under QEMU (host is debian) with no
problem using a 2GB raw image.  I then had problems trying to apply
SP2 because I ran out of disk space, so I created a 3GB raw image,
reinstalled XP, and then installed SP2 without any problems.  I am
using a CVS image from around Dec 19.


On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 12:46:46 +0000, Michael McConnell
<soruk@eridani.co.uk> wrote:
> Ashish Naik wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I installed windows xp without any problem. However, xp doesnot start
> > and the message is 'Disk Error press any key to restart'. What could be
> > the reason?
> 
> I ran into this with WinNT4, trying to use disc images bigger than
1023/16/63
> (504Mb).
> 
> My workaround to this has to always specify the -hdachs settings, in my
case
> 4092/16/63 for a nearly 2Gb disc.
> 
> With a completely blank disc image, its internals returned 4092/16/63, but
> after partitioning and formatting, it used 1023/64/63, which clashed with
the
> old settings which were used at the time of writing the boot sector.
> 
> To confuse the issue further, specifying -hdachs 1023/64/63 caused the NT
> installer to freeze for a bit, then claim the disc was unusable...
> 
> --
> -- Michael "Soruk" McConnell
> Eridani MailStripper - http://mailstripper.eridani.co.uk - Uncovers
Everything!
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Qemu-devel mailing list
> Qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
>


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