Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU 0.5.2 testing vs. W2K Install

[Fabrice Bellard]

Robert Wilhelm wrote:
> FYI;
>
> I tried to install Windows 2000 on a new image using qemu fom cvs)
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=hdimage bs=1024 count=1M
> qemu -hda hdc -cdrom w2k.iso -boot d
>
> It will create and format a new FAT partition but then
> I get the message "Setup has determined that drive C is corrupted
> and cannot be repaired".

This is exactly the bug I have with Win 2K/XP. It seems that the problem 
is timer dependent, so in some cases it does not occur, for example when 
decreasing CPU_TLB_SIZE in cpu-defs.h.

I tracked this bug for several days without finding it yet.

Fabrice.