Re: [Qemu-devel] boot a preinstalled winxp on linux/x86: writing a patch...

[Roberto Polli]

Hi

Alle 11:09, giovedì 28 dicembre 2006, Stefan Weil ha scritto:
> booting a preinstalled winxp fails because Windows XP
> crashs...and ... reboot. It won't fail if the real hardware and
> QEMU's virtual hardware are nearly identical.
ok

> Especially the chipset seams to be critical.
1- so we should have one qemu "chipset emulator" for each winxp installation?
2- is this pbm equivalent to the "move my hd to another pc with different 
mainboard" one?
3- if I solve pbm 2, should I solve pbm 1?


> /dev/hda1 is the first partition which is part of
> /dev/hda (whole disk)
yes, i mistakenly thought that part of the windows bootloader was related to 
the mbr

Thank you very much for your explanation, these are very helpful! Do you think 
I should put something about this thread in the wiki? Forums are full of such 
these question!

Greetings,
R.
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