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Re: [Xen-users] booting domU from DVD

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] booting domU from DVD
From: Glenn Davy <glenn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:59:22 +1000
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:40:39 pm mark pryor wrote:
> 'file:/home/glenn/winosdvd.img,dvd,r'
>                                              ^^^^^
> change above to
> hdc:dvd

Thanks mark - that eliminated 50% of my issues... I can now see the drive, in 
the device listing at boot

>
> that should be enough as long as you have the dvd as an iso
>
> cd /home/glenn
> dd if=/dev/dvd of=winosdvd.img
>
> its not enough to copy the dvd to the drive it must be an iso9660 file type

and you predicted this problem correctly. Its a UDF file system... i'll have 
to investigate and try an find away to convert a udf system to a bootable 
iso9660

thanks

Glenn




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