[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

2010-08-02 Thread Andreas Jacob
Hi Andy When i look at your w7 partition table output, then there seems to be a problem with start/end cylinders. Your first partitions last cylinder is 13, but also the start cylinder of your second partition is 13. two partitions should not share the same cylinder/sector! Something seems to be

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

2010-08-01 Thread Andreas Jacob
I run into the same problem, but the workaround regarding editing the number of heads in the ntfs partition boot sector did it for me. Little Howto: Asume: A raw complete harddisc image within a bootable NTFS partition with XP or 2k3 on it Incident: when using these image with kvm based qemu, the