RE: [Xen-users] Windows install sees only 1MB [MBR] partition.

[Edward Ing <inge@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is a 15MB partition. It is not the first partition.

When I try to put in 1MB to take the whole 1MB in the size prompt of
that windows screen, it does not accept this figure.

One think I did note is that HVM loader will not accept a virtual block
device with a numbered partition "hda1" it only accepts "hda".

This is okay.

disk = [ 'phy:sdb6,hda,w', 'file:/var/iso/WINDOWS_XP.ISO,hdc:cdrom,r']

This doesn't work.

disk = [ 'phy:sdb6,hda1,w', 'file:/var/iso/WINDOWS_XP.ISO,hdc:cdrom,r']


On Fri, 2006-15-12 at 17:24 +0100, Petersson, Mats wrote:
>  
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Edward Ing
> > Sent: 15 December 2006 16:08
> > To: Xen Users
> > Subject: [Xen-users] Windows install sees only 1MB [MBR] partition.
> > 
> > I am trying to install Windows XP as guest to be run under HVM on its
> > own partition -- not in an image file as described in the 
> > documentation.
> > The critical parameter is:
> > 
> > disk = [ 'phy:sdb6,hda,w', 'file:/var/iso/WINDOWS_XP.ISO,hdc:cdrom,r']
> > 
> > My DomU works properly and boots to the installation disk. But during
> > the installation procedure I get the XP installation partitioning
> > screen, but my partition is only recognized to be 1MB long.
> > The partition information box says:
> > "1 MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on atapi [MBR]"
> > 
> > So it thinks the sdb6 partition as viewed as an hda drive as a 1 MB
> > disk.
> > 
> > Any ideas why? Can you not install guest Windows XP into a 
> > partition or
> > must it be in a file image?
> 
> It should work to install it on a partition, but beware that it will try
> to use the partition as a DISK, and I'm not sure exactly how the sizing
> of that will work. What size is the partition you're trying to install
> on?
> 
> --
> Mats
> > 
> > 
> > Edward Ing
> > Mississauga, Ontario.
> > 
> > 
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