Re: Booting problem with XP / DOS

Op 20090830 om 12:24 schreef Miller, Shao:
> 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.


A driver for the NIC, Network Interface Card, should also be installed.



Cheers
Geert Stappers


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