Re: [Qemu-devel] incomplete floppy images

[Jim C. Brown]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 02:07:37PM +0300, Jani Monoses wrote:
> Hello
> is there a requirement in qemu that images passed to -fda are exactly 1.44
> sized images?
> 
> Last Friday I sent a patch fixing boot from files which don't have sizes
> multiple of 512, where the last incomplete 'sector' was ignored.
> ecos bootable applications are such examples and so is the asmutils linux boot
> disk to mention two that I found.
> 
> bochs boots both of them so I had a hard time figuring out what the problem
> was in qemu's case.
> 
> So unless the requirement above is true is such a patch desired?
> 
> thanks
> Jani
> 
> 

qemu aims to be as compatible as a PC as possible ... every patch that fixes
a bug is desired.

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