Indeed the crash doesn't happen in current git anymore. Setup still doesn't copy anything off the CD (hangs on the first file) but at least the crash is fixed and formatting the harddisk works now.
I'll investigate the other issue and maybe open up a new bug for that. This bug here can be closed. Thank you! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1252270 Title: installing NT4 on MIPS Magnum/Jazz asserts Status in QEMU: New Bug description: While installing NT4 on MIPS Magnum (Jazz), when the NT Installer tries to format the harddisk, QEmu 1.6.1 crashes with an assertion: qemu-system-mips64el: g364: invalid read at [0000000000102000] qemu-system-mips64el: hw/scsi/scsi-bus.c:1577: scsi_req_data: Assertion `req->cmd.mode != SCSI_XFER_NONE' failed. ./nt4mips.sh: line 3: 20336 Aborted (core dumped) ./qemu-system-mips64el --machine magnum -m 64 -net nic -net user -hda nt4.dsk -cdrom NTWKS40D.ISO -global ds1225y.filename=nvram.bin -global ds1225y.size=16384 This assertion also occurred with the stock Ubuntu version of QEmu (1.5.0 (Debian 1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu5)) which I tried before. Note that to even get this far, you need the patch mentioned in BUG1245924, otherwise QEmu 1.6.1 won't even start/boot at all NT4 installation guide I'm following: http://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_Windows_NT_4.0_on_Qemu(MIPS) http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/?p=2255 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1252270/+subscriptions