[Qemu-devel] NT 4 status

[Qemu-devel] NT 4 status

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

Hi,

I just tried the latest cvs with 2GB virtual disk, and here's the status:

1. At first install it seems to go everything ok (No parameters when 
launching qemu, just the -cdrom iso image name -hda for the hard disk 
image). However, upon finishing install and rebooting (quitting qemu, 
removing the -boot parameter) it's just says "booting from hard disk" 
and its just sits there idle.

2. Trying to re-install NT on the same partition without any paramaters 
change in QEMU - and it shows that the virtual disk has more then 1024 
cylinders and it warns you..

3. Using -isa gives you the ability to install, but upon finishing - 
it's trying to boot the new hard disk but gives an I/O error at the boot 
beginning...

Suggestions?

Thanks,
Hetz

[Qemu-devel] Re: NT 4 status

[Ben Pfaff]

Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz@dad-answers.com> writes:

> I just tried the latest cvs with 2GB virtual disk, and here's the status:
>
> 1. At first install it seems to go everything ok (No parameters when
> launching qemu, just the -cdrom iso image name -hda for the hard disk
> image). However, upon finishing install and rebooting (quitting qemu,
> removing the -boot parameter) it's just says "booting from hard disk"
> and its just sits there idle.

I couldn't get NT to work properly with a disk bigger than about
500 MB.  It's undoubtedly some sort of IDE CHS translation issue,
but I wasn't able to figure out exactly what kind (otherwise I'd
have submitted a patch).
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
email: blp@cs.stanford.edu
web: http://benpfaff.org