Re: [Qemu-devel] Win95 Image does not boot, how can I debug where I am getting stuck

[Leah Cunningham]

On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 07:34 +0200, octane indice wrote:
> > This probably isn't exactly the right question for a
> > development mailing
> > list, but the user-forumns did not seem to exist, so I hope
> > you will
> > forgive me or tell me where to ask a question like this.
> > 
> > I have an image of a Window's 95 hard disk, dd'd directly off
> > the disk itself.  I can mount the image loopback:
> > 
> >  /tmp/win95 on /mnt type vfat (rw,loop=/dev/loop5)
> > 
> did you dd the complete disk, or juste the partition?

I did dd the entire disk, but the partition table on it looks pretty
goofy, so I wonder if I didn't get the boot sector and partition table
in the image correctly.

> > I do not seem to be able to boot the image with qemu, trying
> > with various versions, but I have no idea how to proceed
> > with finding out what is wrong.  How can I debug what is
> > happening?  Would there be a boot loader error?  
> > 
> Use tomsrtbt (www.toms.net/rb, and find the tomsrtbt.raw
> floppy image).
> 
> Boot with
> qemu -fda tomsrtbt.raw -hda win95.img -boot a
> then try to do a 
> fdisk -l /dev/hda
> if you see your partition, mount it. If everything is in place (the
> boot flag, and so on) this is a win95 boot issue. (go to
> www.bootdisk.com to join a boot floppy for win95)
> If fdisk complains, the win95.img is not a harddisk image.

That's a clever way to look at it, and it's clearly not a normal
partition table, so I think that's a good clue for what I need to do to
look into this.  I'm sorry I didn't look at that more closely before
sending this message, now I feel foolish, I was just so sure that the
image was correct.

I'll try to recreate the image with a dos boot sector and such and see
how it goes from there.  Thanks again to everyone for all the help.

Leah

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