Re: Booting problem with XP / DOS

Good day Ixcoatl Perez,

Concerning your process for SAN-booting Windows XP:

You should be installing Windows XP on the actual target hardware that
will be SAN-booting.  QEmu has different hardware (including different
NIC) than your real hardware, so three things could potentially prevent
the OS from fully booting: HAL, kernel, NIC.  The symptom of this would
be a "Blue Screen of Death" with number 0x0000007B.

You would be better off installing to the actual target hardware.  If
you have multiple model types, you will be better off installing to each
one and having an "image" for each model-type.

HOWEVER, it doesn't appear that you have gotten that far.  Your initial
SAN-boot seems to fail.  Some things to think about: Does the SAN have
an MBR (with boot-code and partition table and an active partition)?
Did you copy the whole disk (correct) or just the partition (incorrect)?
Are you able to attach to this SAN from some other running OS on the
same network and take a look at the disk?

DOS certainly does not require a driver.  INT 0x13 is hooked.  A guess
would be that you copied the partition, instead of the disk, or that
QEmu disk geometry is somehow messing things up.

Good luck!

- Shao Miller

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