[SLL] Problem following "Best of Both Worlds" qemu setup

[Ben. B.]

Hello,

The steps outlined in the "Best of Both Worlds" article by Dashamir
Hoxha in the February 2008 issue of the Linux Journal on page 84 is
almost exactly what I want to do. I have a new MSI laptop with a
2.4gHZ P4 core duo, 2GB RAM, 200GB HD with a WinXP/Slack12.0 dual
boot. I'd really like to be able to run the Slack12 install from
within windows but when I try to run the qemu command:
qemu.exe -L . -hda \\.\PhysicalDrive0 -soundhw all -localtime

I get a grub "Error 17" which google research revealed means "Grub
error 17 : Cannot mount selected partition This error is returned if
the partition requested exists, but the filesystem type cannot be
recognized by GRUB."

So I actually reinstalled Slack12 on ext3 (it was ReiserFS) and I
still get the same error. From the article it seems like this first
step should be fairly easy. I even tried using LILO as my boot loader
but I just get the old "L 99 99 .." error. I did install both GRUB and
LILO to the MBR. Is there any special setup in FC6 that I need to copy
to get this to work in Slack12? Thanks!

Ben