On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 08:01:31AM -0400, Karl Magdsick wrote:
>
> I hope someone else will chime in, but my guess is that the problem
> lies in that an MS Windows "drive" is really a partition, not the entire
> drive. Under Windows you're specifying the equivalent of
> the Linux /dev/hda1 , /dev/
To Clerify since there are a lot of variables here I'll define the test
bed I'm working with.
I have 3 external ide drives.
12G, 6G and 4G. not a one has a dos partition on them.
they were partitioned with fdisk and then had the os's installed on them.
the 12G was a dd copy of the 6 gig with s
On 10/6/05, Karl Magdsick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I wrote:> In order to pass the "D drive" to qemu, and actually give QEMU access> to the entire raw HD, the "D drive" partition would have to fill the entire> HD, and MS Windows would have to make the MBR available as part
> of the first (only, in
I wrote:
> In order to pass the "D drive" to qemu, and actually give QEMU access
> to the entire raw HD, the "D drive" partition would have to fill the entire
> HD, and MS Windows would have to make the MBR available as part
> of the first (only, in this case) partition on the HD.
Here I'm of cour
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 06:15:09PM -0500, Brett Henley wrote:
> Alright, but here's the rub. If a drive can be booted by a machine. Why
> can't it boot from Qemu if it's accessing the raw disk via the windows
> interface? This needs no messing with bios or disksize to boot of a
> regular machine
> >
> Alright, but here's the rub. If a drive can be booted by a machine. Why
> can't it boot from Qemu if it's accessing the raw disk via the windows
> interface? This needs no messing with bios or disksize to boot of a
> regular machine.
>
I hope someone else will chime in, but my guess is that
Jim C. Brown wrote:
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 01:22:33PM -0500, Brett (Mare) Henley wrote:
The Longer one goes into greater detail. WaxDragon's first suggestion
was to use -hdachs to define the drive for the bios. I had to read up
well to do this but entered 65383,16,63 as my definition and
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 01:22:33PM -0500, Brett (Mare) Henley wrote:
> The Longer one goes into greater detail. WaxDragon's first suggestion
> was to use -hdachs to define the drive for the bios. I had to read up
> well to do this but entered 65383,16,63 as my definition and still ended
> up w
Hello all,
Been a long time user and appreciator of QEMU and would like to thank
everyone who put so much hard work into it.
I found a difficulty that I'm not sure where to start so this could be
a lengthy email.
The short of it goes like this:
I hook up a 12G IDE drive through a usb-id
