Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img documentation

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Fabrice Bellard said the following on 11/16/2004 02:46 AM:

> Try my last fix. The important fix is in hw/ide.c:ide_guess_geometry(). 
> I think the problem is that after reboot when installing 
> ide_guess_geometry() returns an invalid geometry because the BIOS 
> translated geometry is stored in the MBR instead of the real hard disk 
> geometry.
>
> For the desperate user, I added an option to manually specify the BIOS 
> translation mode.

With this fix now I can boot XP images newly created with 0.6.1 but I can't 
boot any longer my older images created with versions < 0.6.1 unless I specify 
hda geometry on the command line.
Not a big deal though, I can run QEMU happily with that :)

Thanks for the great work, Fabrice!

Ciao,
Piero