Re: netbsd-5 on Citrix XenClient 2.1 (on an HP EliteBook 8460p)

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2012, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> At Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:20:56 +0000 (GMT), Stephen Borrill 
> <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
> Subject: Re: netbsd-5 on Citrix XenClient 2.1 (on an HP EliteBook 8460p)
> > On Sun, 12 Feb 2012, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > I wish XenClient respected MBR partitions so that I could keep a NetBSD
> > > install handy on the same disk for bare hardware tests again without
> > > having to re-install both systems from scratch each time.
> >
> > It does respect them. I have a triple boot of Windows 7, NetBSD and
> > XenClient on this laptop.
> >
> > You need to ensure you have 2 MBR slots free and then do an advanced
> > install.
>
> Thanks for the clue!  I would never have guessed that XenClient would
> want to see two empty MBR slots in order to not take over the whole
> disk.
>
> It was hard enough to figure out how to safely take one away from
> Windoze 7 to install NetBSD safely when I first got this laptop.

Yes, I had that issue as I knew I needed 2 slots free for XenClient.

> When I
> needed XenClient I expected I could drop it in where I had put NetBSD,
> but it insisted, even in the Advanced Install, on taking over the whole
> disk.

You can Ctrl-Alt-Fn to switch to other consoles within the XenClient 
installer and that gives the clues to MBR usages, etc.

> I'll try a clean NetBSD install with a boot selector and leave a big
> chunk of the disk free, along with the other three slots empty as well
> and see if that leads to success.  For now I'll be able to keep windoze
> running happily only under XC.  Hopefully I can save the VHD for windoze
> though -- I don't want to have to baby-sit it through another 6 hours or
> more of installs and updates.

That's what the Synchronizer is for :-)

--
Stephen