[Fedora-xen] Disk problems on FC5

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 07:14 -0500, Brad Smith wrote:

> I set up Xen on a freshly-installed FC5 system, configured the guest using xenguest-install.py and
> then began an installation via VNC. However, as soon as I got to the partitioning phase I received
> an error that the partition table for my disk couldn't be read. I opted to ignore this as I've seen
> that error even on real systems and have proceeded without incident. However, the installer
> continued to produce errors about not being able to find the disk, being unable to read the
> partition table, etc and eventually just died. Looking at the disk file I told Xen to create (I gave
> it 4096 as the size) it appears to have a size of 0. Is that the way it should be? 

No!  The disk size is specified in GB, though, so you just asked for a
4TB file, which is beyond ext3's tiny little brains.  Try something a
little smaller. :-)

Yes, we should deal with this error better.

--Stephen