From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38193) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UwXUk-0002VI-FK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 08:58:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UwXUj-00060P-3B for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 08:58:14 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:40793) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UwXUi-00060J-Qx for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 08:58:13 -0400 Message-ID: <51DC08E1.4000508@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 08:58:09 -0400 From: Cole Robinson MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20130708034128.GA20623@morn.localdomain> <51DB2DDC.3080001@redhat.com> <20130708231832.GA30361@morn.localdomain> <51DB56E2.6070908@redhat.com> <20130709004137.GA2935@morn.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20130709004137.GA2935@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 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