Hi, booting a preinstalled winxp fails because Windows XP crashs (sometimes you will see a bluescreen) and starts a reboot. It won't fail if the real hardware and QEMU's virtual hardware are nearly identical. Especially the chipset seams to be critical.
/dev/hda1 is the first partition which is part of /dev/hda (whole disk), so there are no patches which can fix anything in QEMU here. You might extend QEMU to emulate your computer's hardware - then XP would run. But this is a lot of work... Regards Stefan Roberto Polli schrieb: > hi all, > > I tried to boot my preinstalled winxp with > # qemu -boot c -hda /dev/hda > > that's what happens: > - qemu load grub, and I select to boot winxp (grub says "chainloader > +1, then > boot") > - qemu starts to load winxp, with a winxp boot screen > - qemu fails and reboots > > it seems qemu stops loading winxp when /dev/hda "ends" and /dev/hda1 > starts. > > I could build a patch to fix it, but before start studing qemu source, > I'd > like to ear from you - yes, if it was easy you guru already would have > done > it! > > tia, > R. _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
