[ug-bosug] Windows XP on Xen

[Moinak Ghosh]

Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> Sriram Narayanan wrote:
>   
>> Folks:
>>
>> I was able to install and boot Windows XP on Xen on Solaris. This was
>> based on the special b66 based DVD.
>>
>> I'm busy figuring out how to access the primary partition via the
>> /dev/rdsk/ hierarchy which would enable me to boot the natively
>> installed XP.
>>   
>>     
>
>    /dev/dsk/cNdNpN where cNdN can be figured out by running
>    format and then press CTRL+C. Or run df -h and see the device
>    that is mounted on the root fs "/".
>
>    pN refers to the primary partition numbers: p1 to p4.
>    /dev/dsk/cNdNp0 is a device node that refers to the entire
>    physical disk.
>   

   Forgot to mention.  /dev/dsk prefix refers to the block device and 
/dev/rdsk
   prefix refers to the character device node for the same device. The block
   device node is used when you are mounting a filesystem on that device.
   The character device node is used for tasks like formatting the 
device with a
   filesystem, doing an fsck, installing GRUB or partitioning.

Regards,
Moinak.