Bisected following note from http://gunkies.org/wiki/I386-softmmu:
the isapc configuration no longer works... So legacy systems must resort to Qemu 0.9.0 or Qemu 0.10.0 I get: fd646122418ecefcde228d43821d07da79dd99bb is the first bad commit commit fd646122418ecefcde228d43821d07da79dd99bb Author: Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com> Date: Fri Oct 30 09:06:09 2009 -0500 Switch pc bios from pc-bios to seabios SeaBIOS is a port of pc-bios to GCC. Besides using a more modern tool chain, SeaBIOS introduces a number of new features including PMM support, better BEV and BCV support, and better PnP support. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1840719 Title: win98se floppy fails to boot with isapc machine Status in QEMU: New Bug description: QEMU emulator version 4.1.50 (commit 50d69ee0d) floppy image from: https://winworldpc.com/download/417d71c2-ae18-c39a-11c3-a4e284a2c3a5 $ qemu-system-i386 -M isapc -fda Windows\ 98\ Second\ Edition\ Boot.img SeaBIOS (version rel-1.12.1-0...) Booting from Floppy... Boot failed: could not read the boot disk To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1840719/+subscriptions