From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51879) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UwLdp-0007Sx-ST for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Jul 2013 20:18:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UwLdo-0002u0-37 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Jul 2013 20:18:49 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:64443) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UwLdn-0002th-Sf for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Jul 2013 20:18:48 -0400 Message-ID: <51DB56E2.6070908@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 20:18:42 -0400 From: Cole Robinson MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20130708034128.GA20623@morn.localdomain> <51DB2DDC.3080001@redhat.com> <20130708231832.GA30361@morn.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20130708231832.GA30361@morn.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] seabios 1.7.3 breaks booting windows 7? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Kevin O'Connor Cc: seabios@seabios.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 07/08/2013 07:18 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 05:23:40PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote: >> On 07/07/2013 11:41 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote: >>> The 1.7.3 version of SeaBIOS has now been released. For more >>> information on the release, please see: >> >> Just gave it a spin, breaks booting a Windows 7 VM for me. Using qemu-1.4.2 >> from Fedora 19 as well as qemu.git. >> >> Here's the BSOD (F19 qemu and seabios 1.7.3): >> http://crobinso.fedorapeople.org/misc/seabios_1.7.3_windows_err.png > > Thanks for testing. I have a "Windows 7 Ultimate" beta (build 7100) > that I tested with and I don't see this problem. (Nor do I see the > problem on WinXP.) > > Can you try without smp and with a smaller memory size (eg, 512M) to > see if the behavior changes. > Hmm, my winxp 32 guest is reproducing as well. And I can reproduce with just the windows 7 media (mine is ultimate N, came off MSDN years ago): ~/src/qemu/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -m 512 -sdl -cdrom /mnt/data/devel/media/win7_64.iso -boot d -bios ~/src/seabios/out/bios.bin vista and windows 8 preview media are reproducing for me too. Maybe it's a toolchain thing, anyone else on Fedora 19 that can independently confirm? > Otherwise, we'll need to iterate through each change in the 76e58028 > commit and find out which part of the DSDT that your copy of Windows > doesn't like. > I'll probably need some hand holding through that, I can't tell from looking at the patch what parts are independent. - Cole