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Re: [Qemu-devel] incomplete floppy images
From: |
Jim C. Brown |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] incomplete floppy images |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:28:03 -0400 |
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On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 02:07:37PM +0300, Jani Monoses wrote:
> Hello
> is there a requirement in qemu that images passed to -fda are exactly 1.44
> sized images?
>
> Last Friday I sent a patch fixing boot from files which don't have sizes
> multiple of 512, where the last incomplete 'sector' was ignored.
> ecos bootable applications are such examples and so is the asmutils linux boot
> disk to mention two that I found.
>
> bochs boots both of them so I had a hard time figuring out what the problem
> was in qemu's case.
>
> So unless the requirement above is true is such a patch desired?
>
> thanks
> Jani
>
>
qemu aims to be as compatible as a PC as possible ... every patch that fixes
a bug is desired.
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