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

[Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr redhat com>]

On 12/04/2011 05:30 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> 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.

Yes, indeed the floppy should work well for both.