Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu won't cold boot XP

[Jens Arm]

> I had exactly the same problems you mentioned.
> There have been some talks on the subject in this list a few days ago but now 
> I 
> don't know if this problem is being addressed.
> Anyway, a quick and dirty fix that worked for me is to comment out line 1896 
> in 
> hw/ide.c (the call to bdrv_set_geometry_hint function).
> After recompiling the CVS source code, everything came back to normal.

OK, with this change I can boot.

I can install and boot w2k, but if I try to install the sp4 I get at different 
possitions an 
error message, that an error has occured, but what error I do not see :(

Is this a qemu related problem?
Does anyone has errors like that?

Jens