From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 10:53:37 -0400 From: carvell@cards.com carvell@cards.com Subject: `file does not exist' when copying first stage files Topicbox-Message-UUID: 17970544-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19950817145337.nMtKpJujmzrQX8xLAS35DyZZbJjYdiFL2w6wadTSfNE@z> Ture P}lsson wrote: > [...] > * Having LILO (the Linux boot loader) in the master boot record > apparently doesn't work with Plan9. After installing the files from > the first floppy and rebooting, the PLAN9\B thing refused to start > Plan 9. Replacing the MBR with a vanilla DOS one (FDISK /MBR) solved > this problem (but also means I can't boot Linux anymore, since it's > on the second hard disk, which the DOS MBR doesn't understand. Foo.) > > -- Ture > > For what it's worth, I had no problem with Lilo and Plan 9. My setup: single 207M IDE HD, partition 1=DOS, 2=Linux, 3=Linux swap, the rest is Plan 9. For anyone using Dos/Linux/Plan 9 out there: I did a complete install of DOS, Linux and Plan9 at basically the same time since my previous Linux setup was an old version, also it occupied my whole disk and I wanted to add a DOS partition. I don't know if all this was required or not, but, here's what I did: Booted from a DOS floppy, used DOS fdisk to make the main DOS partition and another DOS partition the size of the Linux and Linux swap combined (2nd one being to allocate space under DOS so Plan 9 would not install over it). Installed Plan 9 at the end of the disk. Booted DOS again and removed the pretend linux/swap partition (to allow Linux to create its own partitions, since the docs recommend against letting DOS make them). Booted Linux from the installation floppy (bootdisk/rootdisk), used Linux fdisk to make the Linux and swap partitions in place of the 2nd DOS one. (Whew). Again, I don't know if all that was necessary.... but everything seems to work fine. When I get the CD version of Plan 9, hopefully this will be all be simpler as I will be picking up a new HD for it to live on as well.... Gary -- Gary Carvell Galaxy Global Corporation http://www.cards.com/home/carvell carvell@{cards.com, sort.ivv.nasa.gov} / 1-304-367-8249 / fax 1-304-367-8223