Comment 2 for bug 123185

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Edmundo (eantoranz) wrote : Re: [Bug 123185] Re: qemu: doesn't want to start XP

From outside:
$ fdisk -lu xp.iso
You must set cylinders.
You can do this from the extra functions menu.

Disk xp.iso: 0 MB, 0 bytes
128 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders, total 0 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
xp.iso1 * 63 6128639 3064288+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

From inside:
$ sudo fdisk -lu /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 3045 MB, 3145728000 bytes
128 heads, 63 sectors/track, 761 cylinders, total 6144000 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 63 6128639 3064288+ 7 HPFS/NTFS