[mdlug] Moving to Debian 64bit - Lessons Learned?

[Robert Adkins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org 
> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Ingles, Raymond
> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 4:01 PM
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> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Moving to Debian 64bit - Lessons Learned?
> 
> > From: Ingles, Raymond
> 
> 
> >  However, going from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 broke QEMU. My 
> Win98 virtual 
> > machine won't boot anymore. Very irritating. I'm still 
> poking at it...
> > it looks like some underlying hardware representation 
> changed and the 
> > settings the hosted Win98 has won't work.
> 
>  I messed with it this weekend, and then finally just gave up 
> and created a new VM and reinstalled Windows 98. I was able 
> to pull some saved games off the old image and that's good 
> enough for now. If it happens on a subsequent upgrade, 
> though, I'll have to dump QEMU entirely.
> 
>  Sincerely,
> 
>  Ray Ingles                                 (313) 227-2317

Were you able to get the Virtual Win98 to enter into "Safe Mode"?

-Rob