> On Aug 18, 2017, at 4:46 AM, Artyom Tarasenko <atar4q...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 6:31 AM, Programmingkid > <programmingk...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Aug 15, 2017, at 6:27 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 15/08/2017 20:46, Programmingkid wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Aug 14, 2017, at 2:51 AM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On 13/08/2017 21:13, Programmingkid wrote: >>>>>> Lately I found out that Windows NT 4.0 seems to work well with the >>>>>> 486 and pentium processors. Using "-cpu 486" made installing it >>>>>> actually work. Now I am seeing another issue. When I boot Windows NT >>>>>> 4.0 I see this error message: >>>>>> >>>>>> *** STOP: 0x0000007B (0x807A8610,0x00000000,0x00000000,0x00000000) >>>>>> INACESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE >>>>>> >>>>>> Would anyone know a way to solve this issue? >>>>> >>>>> Hervé is probably the best person to answer this question. Maybe try >>>>> installing it with SCSI disks ("-drive if=scsi,id=hd,file=... -drive >>>>> if=scsi,id=cd,file=... -device lsi -device scsi-hd,drive=hd -device >>>>> scsi-cd,drive=cd"). >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> >>>>> Paolo >>>> >>>> Thanks for the help. Unfortunately trying to boot from the install CD >>>> leads to the INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error when using SCSI. >>> >>> Try with 0.12. >>> >>> Paolo >> >> I finally figured out why I was seeing the INACESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error. It >> was because of the qcow2 image format. As soon as I switched to the qcow >> format, the error disappeared. > > That's weird. The image format is not guest visible. Probably you are > hitting some sort of timing issue. > > > -- > Regards, > Artyom Tarasenko > > SPARC and PPC PReP under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/search/label/qemu
I'm not sure how timing is involved but I'm pretty sure I've heard about guests having problems with the qcow2 format in the past.