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

[Edward Ing <inge@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Also, I could not get it to read the physical hard drive until I
explicitly used the /dev prefix for the cdrom.

disk = [ 'phy:/dev/sdb6,hda,w', 'phy:/dev/hdc,hdc:cdrom,r']


Now I can boot to cdrom, without having to make an image.

On Fri, 2006-15-12 at 21:22 -0500, Edward Ing wrote:
> 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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