Re: [Qemu-devel] Help with Windows NT 4.0

[Artyom Tarasenko <atar4qemu@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 6:31 AM, Programmingkid
<programmingkidx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Aug 15, 2017, at 6:27 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 15/08/2017 20:46, Programmingkid wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Aug 14, 2017, at 2:51 AM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 13/08/2017 21:13, Programmingkid wrote:
>>>>> Lately I found out that Windows NT 4.0 seems to work well with the
>>>>> 486 and pentium processors. Using "-cpu 486" made installing it
>>>>> actually work. Now I am seeing another issue. When I boot Windows NT
>>>>> 4.0 I see this error message:
>>>>>
>>>>> *** STOP: 0x0000007B (0x807A8610,0x00000000,0x00000000,0x00000000)
>>>>> INACESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE
>>>>>
>>>>> Would anyone know a way to solve this issue?
>>>>
>>>> Hervé is probably the best person to answer this question.  Maybe try
>>>> installing it with SCSI disks ("-drive if=scsi,id=hd,file=... -drive
>>>> if=scsi,id=cd,file=... -device lsi -device scsi-hd,drive=hd -device
>>>> scsi-cd,drive=cd").
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Paolo
>>>
>>> Thanks for the help. Unfortunately trying to boot from the install CD leads to the INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error when using SCSI.
>>
>> Try with 0.12.
>>
>> Paolo
>
> I finally figured out why I was seeing the INACESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error. It was because of the qcow2 image format. As soon as I switched to the qcow format, the error disappeared.

That's weird. The image format is not guest visible. Probably you are
hitting some sort of timing issue.


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Artyom Tarasenko

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