Re: [Qemu-devel] Trying to run Windows XP Pro

[Antony T Curtis]

On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 13:27, Sebastien Bechet wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Le lun 31/05/2004 à 12:18, Antony T Curtis a écrit :
> > I boot the WinXP partition choosing Safe Mode Command prompt boot and it
> > proceeds to boot until it loads the agp440.sys driver, where it halts at
> > EIP=804e945e (which is a 0xeb 0xfe , jmp $-2 infinite loop)
> 
> This is not agp440.sys, it can be disabled using Recovery Console but
> qemu (and qemu console) continue to hang.
> 
> how to do that :
> listsvc # list of drivers loaded on startup
> disable agp440 # disable AGP440
> exit # reboot

Curiously enough... I have successfully installed XP Pro under QEMU...
But I cannot boot my existing WinXP Partition. Maybe it's the driver
which loads after the agp440 driver?

> In another idea, i tried to convert W2K qemu default isa install to qemu
> w/ pci enabling plugplay, PCI and PCIIde drivers : but ... not working
> maybe I forget to enable something ?

I am going to try the 'turtle' interpreter emulator - since it is also
reportedly capable of booting OS/2 now... There must be some aspect of
the current translator which is incomplete which affects these things.
-- 
Antony T Curtis <address@hidden>