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Subject: [Qemu-devel] hdachs heads limit
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Any idea how hard it would be to increase the -hdachs heads limit of 16 to 255 ?
It appears that it is required to boot from hard disk, i.e. not from
hard disk image, on some (all ?) IBM/Lenovo laptops ?