Re: [Qemu-devel] Solaris SPARC guest on QEMU

[Artyom Tarasenko]

2009/9/16 Luis Freitas <address@hidden>:
>
>  Tried to use the CDROM for the HD image, to force it to behave with 512 byte 
> sectors, same result.
>
>  I browsed the sources yesterday and seems that the code between disk and 
> cdrom is shared, the behaviour depends only on how it is initialized, also 
> the CDRom has a geometry translation, either lba or msf (What is msf?). I 
> dont think Sun servers have this kind of translation but I dont know if this 
> could cause problems, will need to look at the bootprg sources for clues on 
> this. (Perhaps the geometry on the Sun disk label needs to match what is 
> defined on the hardware?)
>
>  I could not find where in the code the CDROM is defined to have 2048 byte 
> sectors or where its geometry is defined. Any pointers?

Again, I think the problem doesn't have to do with the cdrom's sector
size. Booting from a real hd (not a cdrom) image throws the same
error.