Re: [Qemu-devel] A bug of running existing windows xp from x86 64linuxhost

[Sergey Bychkov]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jie Zhang" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: 2.04.2008 7:26
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] A bug of running existing windows xp from x86 
64linuxhost

> > > > > A disk read error occurred
> > > > > Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
> > > > >
> > > > > when qemu starts.
> > > >
> > > > Maybe, You should show qemu command line first?
> > > I use the following command line:
> > >
> > > sudo qemu -hda /dev/sda -m 512
> > >
> > > I can see the grub, but cannot boot into windows xp because of the disk 
> > > read error. It's weird that the same command line works on my AMD64 pc, 
> > > although qemu crashed when I passed "-d in_asm" to it.
> >
> > Hmm. The only error I could expect in this place is "inaccesible boot 
> > device" (0x2b, afair)
> >
> > If your host is x86_64, try:
> >
> > $ sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -hda /dev/sda -m 512
> I tried before. I got the same error.

With this message - this is NT boot record could not access disk. Possibly, 
this is bug in qemu, but only debugger could help.
Maybe, qemu doesn't provide good access to big disk, or BIOS services in 
bochsbios don't do this.

Sergey Bychkow
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