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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 20:12:01 -0400
From: jmk@plan9.att.com jmk@plan9.att.com
Subject: can't boot plan9 on a stand_alone PC?
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when you see the 'boot from: ' prompt does it give a list of boot devices
on the previous line? if so, what does it give?

you can copy (under dos) the 9dos file from the floppy to c: then do
	c:\plan9\b hd!0!9dos
which will get you up and able to look at the hard discs to see what
went wrong. sounds like the boot partition was overwritten.

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From:	peterw@postman.ncube.com (Peter Wang)
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Subject: can't boot plan9 on a stand_alone PC?
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- The system:
  a PC compatiable with a Pentium735 chip, and 853 MB IDE drive.
  Made a partition of 80 MB (C drive) and DOS formatted, leaving
  the rest of the hard disk to plan9.

- How the problem started:
  plan9 runs perfectly until I added additional hard disks and then
  did partitions from C:\ using fdisk of DOS command.

- Symptom:
  when run plan9 from DOS, c:\plan9\b.com, get error message on screen,
  .bad majic 0xf6xxxxxx not a plan 9 executable!
  boot from:

- Question:
  How to recover?

I would appreciate any hints!


- Peter Wang