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* Re: [9fans] booting with the Win2K loader....
@ 2001-04-23 15:47 rsc
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From: rsc @ 2001-04-23 15:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

> My question is: Just how can we get a NT loader usable
> bootsector file manually?

I would have expected the first sector of the Plan 9
partition to do the trick, assuming you can boot from
that partition normally.  If it doesn't, I've no ideas.

Russ



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* [9fans] booting with the Win2K loader....
@ 2001-04-23  8:46 Belldandy
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From: Belldandy @ 2001-04-23  8:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

  The install docs on the Plan9 website says about running
'bootsetup' to specify the boot method. The 'winnt' method,
as described in the docs, creates the bootsector file needed
by the NT loader, and edits and backs up boot.ini. The
unflexible part of this is the NT/Win2k installation has to
be on a FAT partition, which mine isn't.

  This should be able to be circumvented by manually creating
the bootsect.p9 and editing boot.ini by hand(from win2k).
I originally thought the needed bootsector file is from the
start of the plan9 partition, which I thought wrong(didn't work).

 My question is: Just how can we get a NT loader usable
bootsector file manually?


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* [9fans] booting with the Win2K loader....
@ 2001-04-23  8:44 Belldandy
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Belldandy @ 2001-04-23  8:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans


  The install docs on the Plan9 website says about running
'bootsetup' to specify the boot method. The 'winnt' method,
as described in the docs, creates the bootsector file needed
by the NT loader, and edits and backs up boot.ini. The
unflexible part of this is the NT/Win2k installation has to
be on a FAT partition, which mine isn't.

  This should be able to be circumvented by manually creating
the bootsect.p9 and editing boot.ini by hand(from win2k).
I originally thought the needed bootsector file is from the
start of the plan9 partition, which I thought wrong(didn't work).

 My question is: Just how can we get a NT loader usable
bootsector file manually?


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