[Qemu-devel] Re: making a raw disk image

[U n d e r a c h i e v e r]

Jim C. Brown <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 09:03:32AM +0100, U n d e r a c h i e v e r wrote:
> > 
> > When booting the real hardware, the boot loader is grub IIRC and comes
> > up first, then the NT Boot Loader. Can anyone advise on how to turn
> > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 into a bootable qemu image? 
> > 
> 
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 can be copied into a disk image.
> Thats ot too hard. fdisk -l /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disk will
> tell you 3 of heads ad #of sectors per track. It will also tell you how
> many cylinders you need for the partition. You can easily create a new
> table on a disk image and dd the partition into the right place.
> 
> However, Windows NT (including 2k and XP) does not like it when you change all
> the hardware (esp. the motherboard & IDE controller). Ok, so how do you get
> Windows to recognize and work with the new hardware (the one that qemu uses) ?
> 
> Short answer: You don't. You can't. You are better off reinstalling win2000
> inside of qemu and then moving all your files from the partition to the disk
> image.
> 
> Long answer: Once installed, Windows has only the minimal drivers required to
> boot the hardware on your computer - which happens to be completely different
> from what qemu emulates. 
> If you really really want to try to set up Windows 2000, try looking at
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314082 and
> http://www.duxcw.com/faq/win/move2K.htm, which explains part of the problem in
> greater detail as well as some possible workarounds. Note that changing
> the drivers for the IDE and motherboard may not be enough - there may be other
> hardware issues as well. (E.g. keep that copy of win2k on the partition until
> you are sure that the copy in the disk image has enough drivers to boot into
> normal mode).

thanks -- whilst that's not exactly the answer I want

oh, to bite the bullet and kills windows then?
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