[Qemu-devel] Disk I/O errors loading Windows98 from Linux

[Jim Adams]

Greetings,
I'm using a Debian based Linux distro with Kernel 2.6.7

I have created an image file using
   qemu-img create -b /dev/hdb -f qcow /home/jadams/hdb.qcow

I run qemu with the following:
qemu /home/jadams/qemu/hdb.qcow

A window opens and displays my grub bootloard with the opttion to chose 
my Window98 startup.
I get this error output

 Booting Windows at hdb1
 rootnoverify (hd0,0)
 chainloader +1
Disk I/O error
replace the disk and press any key.



I also have tried the following and get the same output.
qemu /home/jadams/qemu/hdb.qcow -isa
qemu /home/jadams/qemu/hdb.qcow -isa

Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
Jim A.
Russell, KY USA