From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows 95 and qemu
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 13:21:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40CAE720.8080306@bellard.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40C98AE8.7020309@mech.kuleuven.ac.be>
The problem may be related to the fact that QEMU does not initialize the
HDD geometry fields in the CMOS memory.
Fabrice.
Gerolf Vanacker wrote:
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> I have a similar problem:
>
> with the latest (june 10) cvs qemu, when I do "qemu /dev/hdc" (the
> main disk in my laptop on which I have a dual-boot WinXP / Linux), I
> get the Lilo interface without any problem. When I choose to boot
> Linux, it works fine. Booting XP however, gives me the message "A disk
> read error occurred, Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart". GRUB gives me the
> same result.
> It seems the lilo bootloader jumps correctly to the XP boot record,
> but from that point on something goes wrong.
> Has anyone had success yet booting XP (or another windows) from a
> device file?
>
> Oliver Kopp wrote:
>
> |Hi,
> |
> |I tried qemu-cvs two days ago with a German Win95 using qemu -hda
> |/dev/hdc
> |/dev/hdc was the main harddisk of another PC, where Win95 works fine.
> |
> |After firing up qemu, windows sys, it has an I/O-error and I should
> |change the disk.
> |
> |qemu -hda /dev/hdc1 doesn't work either: "incorrect system" (or similar)
> |
> |
> |fdisk -l /dev/hdc gives correct values.
> |
> |FreeDOS from www.ubcd.de 2.31 and qemu -hda /dev/hda -cdrom /dev/crom
> |-boot d showed a 0 MB-Disk while booting...
> |
> |
> |What can I do to use this Win95-Installation?
> |
> |
> |Greetings
> |
> |Oliver
> |
> |
> |
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> - --
> Gerolf Vanacker
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-12 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-11 10:23 [Qemu-devel] Windows 95 and qemu Oliver Kopp
2004-06-11 10:35 ` Gerolf Vanacker
2004-06-12 11:21 ` Fabrice Bellard [this message]
2004-06-12 16:16 ` Tim
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