[Qemu-devel] Floppy geometry detection and INT 13,8

2007-03-25 Thread Frode Vatvedt Fjeld
I stumbled upon a problem when trying to get Qemu to boot my homebrew kernel image. For certain sizes of floppy image files, the (still homebrew) bootloader failed to load the kernel properly. After quite a bit of searching, I believe I pinned the problem down to the fact that Qemu tries to

[Qemu-devel] Floppy geometry

2007-03-25 Thread Frode Vatvedt Fjeld
I stumbled upon a problem when trying to get Qemu to boot my homebrew kernel image. For certain sizes of floppy image files, the (still homebrew) bootloader failed to load the kernel properly. After quite a bit of searching, I believe I pinned the problem down to the fact that Qemu tries to