On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:12:46 -0800, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Carl Lowenstein wrote:
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> >On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:13:10 -0800, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 11:03:16AM -0800, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>My initial goal was to load Windows98se because I have a genuine copy
> >>>of it. So far I have found that the numerous reboots necessary for
> >>>installing W98se confuse either Qemu or me, and I can't make it work.
> >>>
> >
> >You misconstrue me. I am trying to install Windows on a blank disk
> >image inside an emulator. It's a virgin machine. The problem is the
> >W98 apparently attacks the hardware directly to force a boot back to
> >the BIOS, and that doesn't work on the emulated BIOS. It just does
> >nothing.
> >
> >
>
> I know little about this, but can you make an image of one of your two
> successful installs of w98 and just replace the blank disk image? (I'm
> guessing that the emulator handles things differently enough to preclude
> success with this.)
Tried that, it didn't work. There seem to be too many hardware
differences between the real machine (AMD K6-3) and the emulated
machine (Pentium 4) and the attached peripherals.
> >As an exercise in futility, I set up a sacrificial real machine and
> >installed W98 on it. It worked. Twice. The second time I was trying
> >to observe when the reboots happened, so I could try to make the
> >emulator do that.
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