From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Rob Gardner <rob.gardner@hp.com>
Subject: Re: More on domU not starting
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:12:24 -0600
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Ryan Grimm wrote:

>
> I had a similar problem and was able to rectify it by including the 
> following line:
>
> disk = [ 'phy:/dev/sda3,hda1,w' ]
>
> which, as stated in the user doc in section 5.1, will export /dev/sda3 
> (the partition where my image is) to the domU as hda1.
>
> then, my disk config is:
>
> disk = [ 'file:/path/to/image,hda1,w' ]
>
> also, the user doc's example in section 5.1 says that disk = [ 
> 'phy:sda3,hda1,w' ] would work but it did not unless i put /dev/ in 
> front of sda3, like above.
>


I don't understand that. If you have two "disk = " lines, won't the 
second simply supercede the first? I tried exporting the partition 
containing the image like this:
   disk = [ 'phy:/dev/hda6,hda6,w',
          'file:/xen/disk-images/dom1.fs,sda1,w']
...but no luck there.


Rob