From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KDPuG-0002rt-5N for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:23:24 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KDPuC-0002ra-OP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:23:23 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34305 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KDPuC-0002rX-J7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:23:20 -0400 Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.188]:3245) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KDPuC-0000M2-AX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:23:20 -0400 Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 18so1569996fks.2 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:23:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <478c82f00806301323y2679acdatcc102c13d44d3287@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:23:18 +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 raw disk, it fails with the above error message - "A disk read error occurred". This happens only on IBM/Lenovo laptops (tried a few models), while it works just fine on any other desktop or laptop I can get my hands on. Probably has something to do with bios... Any suggestions ? Thanks