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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] no rio ?
Date: Tue,  8 Jul 2003 12:15:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000f01c34539$e6fb7f00$d2944251@insultant.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878yr97mw7.fsf@rgristroph-austin.ath.cx>

> I can't answer your questions; I first wiped the machine and installed
> another OS to test the hardware, and then I re-downloaded Plan 9 this
> morning and tried again; this time Plan 9 won't overwrite the MBR, so
> the old OS's bootloader keeps coming up, no matter how many times I do
> "bootsetup" from the floppy.  So right now I can't even get to the
> term% prompt.

ahh, i've got into that loop with windows 2000.  in my case it had written
the MBR, but i had forgotten [re]move plan9.ini that it had booted off.

off course, my case was special 'cos this was a USB floppy install
on a VAIO so my plan9.ini was in c:\

once moved to oplan9.ini it booted fine.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-08 10:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-06 23:27 David Presotto
2003-07-08  2:50 ` Rob Ristroph
2003-07-08 10:15   ` boyd, rounin [this message]
2003-07-08 16:50     ` Rob Ristroph
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-06 21:48 Rob Ristroph
2003-07-06 23:04 ` andrey mirtchovski

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