[geeks] QEMU image file to hard disk partition?

[Cory Smelosky]

On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, William Barnett-Lewis wrote:

> Then, I'm thinking of DD'ing the QEMU files I have on this machine into
> those two xenix partitions. I'm not seeing any reason that shouldn't
> work as long as I have the bs & count correct. Any problems I may be
> missing?

Why not just do raw disk images and install both OSes in to one big image? 
Then all you need to do is dd the image off to the hardware itself. 
(Remember to make it a bit smaller to account for overhead when copying it 
back)

>
> The one thing I'm not sure about is the MBR but, OTOH, according to the
> documention I've read it should have been possible, back in the day, to
> dual boot DOS & Xenix that way. My memories are ... hazy... at best by
> this time.

See above.  I may've misinterpreted your problem but if I haven't, your 
image of Xenix would have its own partition table.  Most systems still 
aren't too fond of having partition tables within partitions.  (Trust me! 
I've done it before!)

>
> Thoughts, tips, etc?
>
> William
>

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