Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 586420] Re: WinXP install cd hangs at boot time if machine started with floppy

[Michael Tokarev]

10.06.2010 14:49, tekditt wrote:
> Well, I forgot something to mention. Again:
>
> I can boot the install CDs of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 if I
> DON'T use any floppy drive. -fda/-fdb FILE as well as -drive
> file=FILE,if=floppy are causing this bug, the bug not to be able to boot
> these install CDs.

Works For Me (tm) with and without floppy image, with several versions
of qemu-kvm and qemu, and using several different winXP install CD images
(one is even pre-SP1).

Just a wild guess: maybe you've something "wrong" in the floppy image
that causes winXP to hang?  I tried ms-dos-6.22 boot floppy and a blank
(all-zeros) image.  Or maybe it's of a wrong geometry/size, whatever...

/mjt