Re: About usage of floppy with linux guests on gnome-boxes

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak gnome org>]

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
<zeeshanak gnome org> wrote:
> Hi Lucas,
>
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
> <zeeshanak gnome org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr redhat com> wrote:
>>> On 12/02/2011 11:09 AM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   I don't think mcopy does anything different than what you are doing.
>>>> I'll try first to fix the size of template/empty image first.
>>>> Hopefully that helps.
>>>
>>>
>>> By the way, this is what libmagic will tell us if you inspect a file created
>>> with the procedure I mentioned:
>>>
>>> [lmr@freedom data]$ file myfloppy.img
>>> myfloppy.img: DOS floppy 1440k, x86 hard disk boot sector
>>>
>>> Ah, much better :)
>>
>>   Done and it works now. :) Will send the patch to bz shortly and
>> once ack'ed, i can push it.. Thanks so much!! This has caused me
>> sleepless nights for so long. :(
>
>  Bad news: While this fixed the windows xp issue, now Fedora doesn't
> like the new floppy image. :( I guess we either try to get that
> usb/cdrom method working for Fedora asap or use the older floppy image
> for fedora.

  Never mind that! With latest Qemu the same floppy image works for
both fedora and xp.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124