From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CTyBV-0002DM-Hc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 02:55:29 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CTyBV-0002DA-4u for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 02:55:29 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CTyBV-0002D7-2T for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 02:55:29 -0500 Received: from [195.110.149.106] (helo=buzz.railnet.it) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CTy2j-0008E0-Cj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 02:46:25 -0500 Message-ID: <4199B04F.8020307@railnet.it> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 08:46:23 +0100 From: ML MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img documentation References: <41993485.6060704@bellard.org> <41e41e7a041115150417b7468d@mail.gmail.com> <41995BF4.7020102@bellard.org> In-Reply-To: <41995BF4.7020102@bellard.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: 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 --- 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