From: ML <ml@railnet.it>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img documentation
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 08:46:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4199B04F.8020307@railnet.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41995BF4.7020102@bellard.org>
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Fabrice Bellard said the following on 11/16/2004 02:46 AM:
> Try my last fix. The important fix is in hw/ide.c:ide_guess_geometry().
> I think the problem is that after reboot when installing
> ide_guess_geometry() returns an invalid geometry because the BIOS
> translated geometry is stored in the MBR instead of the real hard disk
> geometry.
>
> For the desperate user, I added an option to manually specify the BIOS
> translation mode.
With this fix now I can boot XP images newly created with 0.6.1 but I can't
boot any longer my older images created with versions < 0.6.1 unless I specify
hda geometry on the command line.
Not a big deal though, I can run QEMU happily with that :)
Thanks for the great work, Fabrice!
Ciao,
Piero
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-16 7:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-15 22:58 [Qemu-devel] qemu-img documentation Fabrice Bellard
2004-11-15 23:04 ` Hetz Ben Hamo
2004-11-16 1:46 ` Fabrice Bellard
2004-11-16 7:46 ` ML [this message]
2004-11-16 15:17 ` Jason Brittain
2004-11-16 15:42 ` Panagiotis Issaris
2004-11-16 15:53 ` Johannes Schindelin
2004-11-17 8:09 ` ML
2004-11-17 21:56 ` Jim C. Brown
2004-11-16 21:45 ` Fabrice Bellard
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