From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: plan9@sigint.cs.purdue.edu To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] new bootstrap structure Message-ID: <20011114144021.A12285@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> References: <20011113234030.E5B8319A4A@mail.cse.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from jason@tommyk.com on Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:33:55AM -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 14:40:21 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2317548a-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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.)