Re: [Qemu-devel] A disk read error occurred

["Alexander (Sasha) Sirotkin" <sasha.sirotkin@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Samuel Thibault
<samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> Alexander (Sasha) Sirotkin, le Tue 01 Jul 2008 13:24:53 +0300, a écrit :
>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Samuel Thibault
>> <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>> > Alexander (Sasha) Sirotkin, le Mon 30 Jun 2008 23:23:18 +0300, a écrit :
>> >> 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 ?
>> >
>> > How big is the disk?
>>
>> Not big, 40G.
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> Ok so that's not an LBA28 issue.
>
Actually it appears that it is 80G after all. What's an LBA28 issue ?
> Samuel
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