From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DD15y-0004iI-2J for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 09:07:58 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DD15r-0004eV-N6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 09:07:54 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DD15r-0004dM-IA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 09:07:51 -0500 Received: from [64.233.184.199] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DD0iq-0005Ax-Ur for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 08:44:05 -0500 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 50so705247wri for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 05:43:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2cecaa3505032005433771d20e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 08:43:58 -0500 From: Brian Tinnel Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Cannot start windows xp In-Reply-To: <423D70B6.50001@eridani.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <423D70B6.50001@eridani.co.uk> Reply-To: brian@tinnel.us, 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 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 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 >