Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu won't cold boot XP

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Jason Brittain said the following on 25/10/2004 17:58:

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> I get all the way through the installation, qemu warm reboots
> and it goes through some configuration, warm reboots again,
> then actually does run WinXP (beautiful).  I get to the desktop
> and can run programs and configure the system.  I can even do
> warm reboots and get all the way back to the desktop again, as
> long as I don't shut down qemu.
>
> But, as soon as I shut qemu down and try to restart it, then
> it doesn't boot anymore.

I had exactly the same problems you mentioned.
There have been some talks on the subject in this list a few days ago but now I 
don't know if this problem is being addressed.
Anyway, a quick and dirty fix that worked for me is to comment out line 1896 in 
hw/ide.c (the call to bdrv_set_geometry_hint function).
After recompiling the CVS source code, everything came back to normal.

Hope it helps,
Piero