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Derek Jewett wrote:
> Hello, new to the group. We have been using PXELINUX for some time now with
> great success. However, with the recent spawn of virtual machines now
> supporting PXE boot, has anyone been able to mount the disk in this
> enviornment? Could someone direct me to any information on how to mount and
> or partition drives? I have discovered the same issue with the HP DX2200
> model of PC. For example if I run fdisk -l it reports nothing, any advise
> would be a great help, as my linux troubleshooting is lacking in this area.
> And we would like to explore disk imaging VM's. Thanks!
>
> Derek
>
Speaking of QEMU, I personnaly use some simple disk images made with dd.
dd if=/dev/zero of=hda.img bs=1M count=10000

Once the system is installed on my disk image I mount it using this
simple script.
This try to find the offset needed to mount the right partition.
It works fine for me with for windows & linux.
Hope this helps,


#!/bin/sh
LC_ALL=C
if [ "$#" -ne "3" ]; then
echo "Usage: `basename $0` <image_filename> <partition # (1,2,...)>
<mount point>" >&2
exit 1
fi

if ! fdisk -v > /dev/null 2>&1; then
echo "Can't find the fdisk util. Are you root?" >&2
exit 1
fi

FILE=$1
PART=$2
DEST=$3

UNITS=`fdisk -lu $FILE 2>/dev/null | grep $FILE$PART | tr -s ' ' | cut
-f3 -d' '`
OFFSET=`expr 512 '*' $UNITS`
mount -o loop,offset=$OFFSET $FILE $DEST

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"Derek Jewett" <djewett@shastacourts.com> writes:

> with the recent spawn of virtual machines now supporting PXE boot,
> has anyone been able to mount the disk in this enviornment?

Maybe it's just me, but I can't see the connection between PXE booting
and disks. I suggest you try reformulating your question to elicit
more response.
--
Feri.

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Well my specific problem is the kernel wont access my specific disk. The
disk is a maxtor DiamondMax 10 Model: 6V080E0 SATA drive. I need to get this
added to the kernel, not PXE specific now. Thanks for the reply


-----Original Message-----
From: Ferenc Wagner [mailto:wferi@niif.hu]
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 6:05 AM
To: djewett@shastacourts.com
Cc: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa
Subject: Re: [syslinux] Virtual machines booting PXE - PXELINUX


"Derek Jewett" <djewett@shastacourts.com> writes:

> with the recent spawn of virtual machines now supporting PXE boot,
> has anyone been able to mount the disk in this enviornment?

Maybe it's just me, but I can't see the connection between PXE booting
and disks. I suggest you try reformulating your question to elicit
more response.
--
Feri.


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