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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