On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 05:39:22PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > John Summerfield wrote: > > > >> > >>> > >>>I think this is: > >>>http://debian.merseine.nu/bsod0.png > >>> > >> > >>This is a corrupted disk, or perhaps the IDE driver is not installed > >>correctly. > > > >the disk is fine, I can boot it natively. The hardware emulation in > >qemu is very old (circa Pentium Pro CPUs). It's possible (probable, do > >I remember LBA supports 120 Gbytes? wasn't there an earlier max of 32 > >Gbytes?) the disk (320 Gbytes) is larger than the emulation supports. > > > >It's also possible that Windows is picking up garbage device geometry. > > > > Ah, I haven't tried very large disks. I'll check it out. Funnily enough, a change was just commited to the Xen's copy of the QEMU ROMBIOS to support disks > 128 GB which I suspect would also apply to upstream QEMU / KVM's rombios changeset: 16669:7fbc521b07a9 tag: tip user: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxx> date: Thu Dec 27 13:00:40 2007 +0000 files: tools/firmware/rombios/rombios.c description: x86, hvm, rombios: INT13 LBA48 support for disks bigger than 128GB. The new limit should be 2TB. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxx> http://xenbits.xensource.com/staging/xen-unstable.hg?rev/7fbc521b07a9 Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
