From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Russ Cox" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010107005715.A88A9199D7@mail.cse.psu.edu> Subject: [9fans] plan 9 and multiboot Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 19:57:12 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 45ee3006-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Having been pointed at the docs, you have to go out of your way to be compliant, so, as predicted, the Plan 9 PC kernels are not. It doesn't seem worth running after, either, since our PC boot process depends on 9load doing things like putting plan9.ini in memory somewhere for us. So the "kernel" that a multiboot booter would be handed would really be 9load, and it just seems ridiculously complicated. As far as coexisting with other PC operating systems, which is a broader issue, Plan 9 is perfectly happy to sit within its own partition. If you mark the partition active, it boots. If you have another boot loader like NTLDR or LILO jump to that partition, it should boot, although I haven't tried recently. Russ