From: plan9@sigint.cs.purdue.edu
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] new bootstrap structure
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 14:40:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011114144021.A12285@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <HBEEKNPPKIMFLJHGHNHMGEAHCGAA.jason@tommyk.com>; from jason@tommyk.com on Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:33:55AM -0500
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:33:55AM -0500, Jason Gurtz wrote:
> I'm not sure how many people around here have played much with the grub
> bootloader. It supports quite a few "standardish" Ethernet adapters as
> well as built in support for reading FAT and other file systems.
Having hand-crafted a hard disk boot sector from an install floppy image
only to find I had to bung in the LBA of the root directory into the volume
id, I'd appreciate a boot loader that understood FAT a little better.
(I was installing Plan 9 on a Linux laptop with a busted floppy and no
CD-ROM. I made a FAT filesystem on the swap partition, mounted the floppy
image, copied the files over, copied the boot code from the floppy image
into the boot sector, patched the root dir's LBA into the volume id, added
the swap partition to LILO, and Bob's my uncle.)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-14 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-13 23:40 anothy
2001-11-13 23:48 ` George Michaelson
2001-11-14 16:33 ` Jason Gurtz
2001-11-14 19:40 ` plan9 [this message]
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