[Fedora-xen] kvm crash on f8

[Jeff Layton]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:58:24 +0900
John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:

> John Summerfield wrote:
> > Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >> John Summerfield wrote:
> 
> > 
> > The good news is that the system now boots grub sans menu. I typed
> > in the necessary information to boot windows:
> > chainloader (hd0,0)+1
> > boot
> > 
> > and windows boots all the way to a BSOD and the stuff on the screen 
> > recommends "chkdsk /f."
> > 
> > Hmm. Type to find a rescue system.
> 
> fwiw same happens when I boot directly from the partition. Ideas
> welcome.
> 

Windows is picky about hard disk drivers. The initial installation
seems to install some drivers that get loaded early for your disk
hardware. QEMU emulates a different type of hardware than what you
probably have and so it can't find the root disk once the kernel has
booted. If you change the main disk controller on a real machine, you'll
probably have the same problem.

I'm not aware of a way to fix that, unfortunately. I've generally had to
install my windows images from scratch.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>