From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 04:38:54 -0400
From: dhog@plan9.cs.su.oz.au dhog@plan9.cs.su.oz.au
Subject: future co-existence with Linux?
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>	> a) making plan9 bootable from LILO (the Linux loader)?
>I don't know what LILO does, in fact I know very little about Linux.
>The Plan 9 kernel has to be loaded into memory at 0x100020 and jumped to
>in protected mode. It also expects some configuration data to be left
>around in low memory. These two things are usually done by the boot
>programme 'b.com' which can be started either from MS-DOS or directly
>from the boot sector on a floppy.

I believe that LILO is a boot sector program that comes with Linux,
which allows you to choose which operating system to run.  Alternatively,
you can elect to run DOS :-)

Perhaps there is some way to make LILO load b.com?  (either directly, or
by loading a copy of /sys/src/boot/pc/bb from a fake dos partition?).  I
don't know if there is, I am not a Linux guru either...