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

[Edward Ing <inge@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This did the trick perfectly.
Thanks.
I'll have to report it as a bug in the documentation.

On Sat, 2006-16-12 at 00:56 +0000, Ryan Worsley wrote:
> Edward,
> 
> Hi, I had the same problem using an LVM partition and it turned out I 
> needed to specify the location of the LVM volume exactly or the BIOS 
> that boots the HVM couldn't see it.  So instead of
> 
> disk = [ 'phy:sys_vg/windows_os,hda,w' ] it had to be something like 
> disk = [ 'phy:/dev/sys_vg/windows_os,hda,w' ]
> 
> I hope that somehow helps and isn't totally irrelevant,
> 
> Ryan.
> 
> 
> Edward Ing wrote:
> 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.
> >


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