Re: [Qemu-devel] boot a preinstalled winxp on linux/x86: writing a patch...

2006-12-28 Thread Roberto Polli
Hi

Alle 11:09, giovedì 28 dicembre 2006, Stefan Weil ha scritto:
 booting a preinstalled winxp fails because Windows XP
 crashs...and ... reboot. It won't fail if the real hardware and
 QEMU's virtual hardware are nearly identical.
ok

 Especially the chipset seams to be critical.
1- so we should have one qemu chipset emulator for each winxp installation?
2- is this pbm equivalent to the move my hd to another pc with different 
mainboard one?
3- if I solve pbm 2, should I solve pbm 1?


 /dev/hda1 is the first partition which is part of
 /dev/hda (whole disk)
yes, i mistakenly thought that part of the windows bootloader was related to 
the mbr

Thank you very much for your explanation, these are very helpful! Do you think 
I should put something about this thread in the wiki? Forums are full of such 
these question!

Greetings,
R.
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[Qemu-devel] boot a preinstalled winxp on linux/x86: writing a patch...

2006-12-27 Thread Roberto Polli
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.
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