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From: | Mark Cave-Ayland |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] "A disk read error occurred" |
Date: | Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:03:20 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20080109) |
Jamie Lokier wrote:
Also, sometimes when booting the BIOS can print a disk read error message, and an appropriate -hdachs will fix it. I found that out when rebooting Windows 2000 after installing it from CD (both in QEMU), on a virtual disk 1GB in size. -- Jamie
The message "A disk read error occurred" comes from the NT bootloader when it is unable to boot, typically caused by an incorrect drive geometry.
It sounds as if you are experiencing a similar problem to the one I blogged about here: http://www.ilande.co.uk/index.php?/archives/6-Migrating-an-NT4-VM-from-VMWare-to-NT4-Part-1.html. In other words, in order to run an existing NT4 image under QEMU I had to halve the number of heads in the NTFS BPB in order for things to work properly. I suspect that this is a bug in either QEMU/BIOS, but I have no idea where to even start looking.
HTH, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063
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