From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KCgJK-0003c7-EA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:42:14 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KCgJI-0003bl-1L for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:42:13 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55420 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KCgJH-0003bi-RK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:42:11 -0400 Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.185]:44969) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KCgJH-0003hU-FU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:42:11 -0400 Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 18so888588fks.2 for ; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:42:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <478c82f00806281242q52a7fa55qcd458c9915e0c5a7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:42:09 +0300 From: "Alexander (Sasha) Sirotkin" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [Qemu-devel] "A disk read error occurred" 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 For some reason when I try to boot qemu with -hda /dev/sda (or -hda /dev/hda), i.e. to use the whole disk, it fails with the above error "A disk read error occurred". This happens only on IBM/Lenovo laptops (tried a few models), while it works just fine on any desktop I can get my hands on. Probably has something to do with bios... Any suggestions ? Thanks