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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] no rio ?
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Date: Tue,  8 Jul 2003 12:15:48 +0200
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> 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.