Re: [9fans] plan 9 and multiboot

[William Staniewicz <wstan@localhostnl.demon.nl>]

Several times a day I switch effortlessly between my
Plan9 and FreeBSD/Win95 partitions. I use the floppy
most of the time to get back into Plan9 but have no
problem with the boot loaders.

Bill

> 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