[xenpreview-dev] mounting the image

Jason Douglas jdouglas at novell.com
Sun May 21 12:50:06 MDT 2006


The easiest way that I have found to mount it is using the lomount command.  It does all the offset calculations for you.

lomount -diskimage foo -partition 2 /mnt

Good luck!

Jason

>>> On 5/21/2006 at 10:59 AM, in message <200605211859.44335.gjn at gjn.priv.at>,
"Günther J. Niederwimmer" <gjn at gjn.priv.at> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have to mount the image from domU in a "normal" ;) SLES 10 RC1, with the 
> new 
> Image, with 2 partitions swap / data (hda1/hda2) inside, I have problems to 
> found out the mountponts :(.
> 
> Are the Parameter saved on a File (?),or is a Utility to found the correct 
> parameters ?
> 
> I found a way to mount this, I hope this is not the way, to mount this 
> partition :(
> 
>  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders
> hda1               1          62      497983+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
> hda2       *     63         524     3711015   83  Linux
>  
>  mount -oloop,ro,offset=`expr 512 \* 255 \* 63 \* 62` diskimg




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