Re: What's not cross-posting... (was Re: Adding a bootloader to a Windows partition image)

2011-03-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/06/2011 02:53 PM, Doug wrote: On 03/06/2011 05:12 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/06/2011 02:21 AM, Doug wrote: /snip/ since it is frowned on to cross-post, I will tell you that the message was posted 03/06/2011 at 12:28 AM, so you can look for it there. (The earlier post was by Jerry Lapha

Re: Adding a bootloader to a Windows partition image

2011-03-06 Thread Joel Roth
On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 02:38:54AM -0500, Doug wrote: > On 03/06/2011 01:05 AM, Joel Roth wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I installed kvm-qemu and enabled virtualization in BIOS. > > > >Now, I have a Windows partition I'd like to fiddle. > >It was produced thusly: > > > > dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=windows_partit

Re: What's not cross-posting... (was Re: Adding a bootloader to a Windows partition image)

2011-03-06 Thread Doug
On 03/06/2011 05:12 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/06/2011 02:21 AM, Doug wrote: /snip/ since it is frowned on to cross-post, I will tell you that the message was posted 03/06/2011 at 12:28 AM, so you can look for it there. (The earlier post was by Jerry Lapham at 03/05/2011 at 8:14 PM. He decide

Re: What's not cross-posting... (was Re: Adding a bootloader to a Windows partition image)

2011-03-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/06/2011 02:21 AM, Doug wrote: On 03/06/2011 03:07 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/06/2011 01:38 AM, Doug wrote: [snip] A message I wrote in reply to a question on the Kubuntu list may be of some help. The message is called "Install Win98 on /dev/sda4" and does not actually install Windows to

Re: What's not cross-posting... (was Re: Adding a bootloader to a Windows partition image)

2011-03-06 Thread Doug
On 03/06/2011 03:07 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/06/2011 01:38 AM, Doug wrote: [snip] A message I wrote in reply to a question on the Kubuntu list may be of some help. The message is called "Install Win98 on /dev/sda4" and does not actually install Windows to /dev/sda4, but to /sdb1. And it's XP

What's not cross-posting... (was Re: Adding a bootloader to a Windows partition image)

2011-03-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/06/2011 01:38 AM, Doug wrote: [snip] A message I wrote in reply to a question on the Kubuntu list may be of some help. The message is called "Install Win98 on /dev/sda4" and does not actually install Windows to /dev/sda4, but to /sdb1. And it's XP, not 98. Anyway, since it is frowned on to

Re: Adding a bootloader to a Windows partition image

2011-03-05 Thread Doug
On 03/06/2011 01:05 AM, Joel Roth wrote: Hi, I installed kvm-qemu and enabled virtualization in BIOS. Now, I have a Windows partition I'd like to fiddle. It was produced thusly: dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=windows_partition Entering this command qemu --enable-kvm windows_partition opens a

Adding a bootloader to a Windows partition image

2011-03-05 Thread Joel Roth
Hi, I installed kvm-qemu and enabled virtualization in BIOS. Now, I have a Windows partition I'd like to fiddle. It was produced thusly: dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=windows_partition Entering this command qemu --enable-kvm windows_partition opens a black window with the "booting" message. Of