Re: [Qemu-devel] seabios 1.7.3 breaks booting windows 7?

[Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>]

On 07/08/2013 08:41 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 08:18:42PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Ugh - make sure you aren't using an old acpi-dsdt.aml file.  I suggest
> following the steps outlined in the SeaBIOS README file for creating a
> mybiosdir/ directory and use the QEMU -L option to point to that
> directory.
> 

Indeed that was it, thanks Kevin, sorry for the noise.

- Cole