Hi, all.
I got the problem when installing Windows XP on Virtual Box 2.2.4 and 3.0 Beta2, if the primary partition is larger than 8G, the system will can not boot.
It will report 'Fatal. Could not read from the boot medium'.
I'm had tried to trouble shooting it. And found it's the BIOS problem. It looks the BIOS of Virtual Box is not support LBA large extension, so if the boot partition large than 1024 cylinder, the system will can not boot.
I hope it can be fixed in next release. Or there are other way to resolve it.
BTW: I tried boot from a Ghost XP cd in Virtual Box, when loading CDROM driver it report INT13 error. It confirm my thinking, the BIOS built-in Virtual Box did not support INT 13 extension.
VirtualBox can't boot system from larger than 1024 cylinder
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xuqingkuang
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- Joined: 25. Jun 2009, 05:28
- Primary OS: Fedora other
- VBox Version: OSE Fedora
- Guest OSses: Windows XP
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sandervl
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- Primary OS: MS Windows Vista
- VBox Version: VirtualBox+Oracle ExtPack
- Guest OSses: Windows, Linux, Solaris
Re: VirtualBox can't boot system from larger than 1024 cylinder
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