From: Michael McConnell <soruk@eridani.co.uk>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Cannot start windows xp
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 12:46:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <423D70B6.50001@eridani.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BE636511.4C5%ashishn@mahindrabt.com>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-20 13:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-20 12:06 [Qemu-devel] Cannot start windows xp Ashish Naik
2005-03-20 12:46 ` Michael McConnell [this message]
2005-03-20 13:43 ` Brian Tinnel
2005-03-21 4:14 ` Ashish Naik
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