Multiple partitions in a Guest OS

Multiple partitions in a Guest OS

[Pradheep K E]

Hi,

I was trying to run a guest OS with multiple partitions. I added a line like

disk=['phy:hda6,hda6,w']

in the configuration file. The disk was not mounted in the host OS.

However, the kernel refuses to boot with an error message which says
"kernel not syncing... attempted to kill init... rebooting...".


When I remove that line, everything works. Is there anything else we
should do for a guest OS to see multiple partitions ?


Thanks,

Pradheep


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Re: Multiple partitions in a Guest OS

[Milan Holzäpfel]

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On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 13:32:45 -0600
Pradheep K E <pradheep.ke@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was trying to run a guest OS with multiple partitions. I added a line like
> 
> disk=['phy:hda6,hda6,w']

you should writing down sth. like this:

| disk=['phy:...', 'phy:...', 'phy:...']
where each "phy:..." is the definition for one device.
E.g.:

| disk=['phy:hda5,hda5,w','phy:hda6,hda6,w']

But isn't this mentioned in the docs somewhere?

> in the configuration file. The disk was not mounted in the host OS.
> 
> However, the kernel refuses to boot with an error message which says
> "kernel not syncing... attempted to kill init... rebooting...".

This is because the second "disk=..." line overwrites the first one
which is probably your / filesystem.

> When I remove that line, everything works. 

Then the first one is not overwritten, and your / filesystem is
available.

Regards,
Milan

PS: Shame on me if the adivce I gave should not be correct.  I have
never tried it, but these config files are actually python source files,
and since one declares a list using square brackets, it only makes sense
to do it with a list of strings.  So just try it (-: 

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