[Qemu-devel] A disk read error occurred

[Alexander (Sasha) Sirotkin]

For some reason when I try to boot qemu with -hda /dev/sda (or -hda
/dev/hda), i.e. to use raw disk, it fails with the above error message
- "A disk read error occurred". This happens only on IBM/Lenovo
laptops (tried a few models), while it works just fine on any other
desktop or laptop I can get my hands on. Probably has something to do
with bios...

Any suggestions ?

Thanks