I am trying to use a disk image which I created using qemu for Bochs. I am having some issues in figuring out the geometry of the disk. Bochs requires that I specify a) the number of cylinders b) the number of heads
c) the number of tracks
When I do fdisk -lu fc5_3.0.2.img I get ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ last_lba(): I don't know how to handle files with mode 81a4
You must set cylinders. You can do this from the extra functions menu.
Disk fc5_3.0.2.img: 0 MB, 0 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders, total 0 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System fc5_3.0.2.img1 * 63 10490444 5245191 83 Linux fc5_3.0.2.img2 10490445 12578894 1044225 82 Linux swap / Solaris
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When I boot up the disk using qemu and do fdisk -lu /dev/hda from *inside qemu*, I get ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Disk /dev/hda: 6442 MB, 6442450944 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 783 cylinders, total 12582912 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 63 10490444 5245191 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 10490445 12578894 1044225 82 Linux swap / Solaris
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I tried using the geometry as seen inside qemu (783/255/63) in bochs but bochs fails with the message [HD ] ata0-0 disk size doesn't match specified geometry
Any ideas how I can use this disk. The only other option is to create a disk using bochs from scratch - which I would like to avoid.