From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] non-standard installs From: Richard Miller MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-tiivhkhonxomxtsyygsxmjejxg" Message-Id: <20020321194610.27E5719A89@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 19:46:11 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6bd87fe6-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-tiivhkhonxomxtsyygsxmjejxg Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > ... As someone else mentioned, Plan 9 has to be in a > primary partition, so that bootstrap loaders can find it No longer true - as of the 26 April 2001 update, 9load can find plan 9 in an extended partition. -- Richard Miller --upas-tiivhkhonxomxtsyygsxmjejxg Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu> Received: from punt-1.mail.demon.net by mailstore for miller@hamnavoe.demon.co.uk id 1016728445:10:15097:4; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 16:34:05 GMT Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by punt-1.mail.demon.net id aa1014668; 21 Mar 2002 16:33 GMT Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.30.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 6BC5919A7B; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:33:10 -0500 (EST) Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: from plan9.cs.bell-labs.com (ampl.com [204.178.31.2]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with SMTP id 3671D19A85 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:32:44 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: From: "Russ Cox" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] non-standard installs MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Help: List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:33:08 -0500 > I'm sure I'm just unlucky, but given my (recent) experience > of installing Plan 9 for the first time, I'd stay well away from your > "production" machine, even if it did have a clean partition. > > I found (repeatedly) that trying to put Plan 9 into a clean > secondary partition corrupted the size of the enclosing primary > partition. I was able to put it back, but thankfully the whole 40Gb > was brand new at the time, and so this wasn't necessary (except as a > vain attempt to keep the other partitions as the shop had left them). > Thus, I eventually scrapped the whole partition table, and put Plan 9 > into a primary partition. > Since then it's all gone fine..... There were some serious bugs in the handling of secondary partitions. They're fixed in the fdisk on the current boot disk, as of January 13, 2002. As someone else mentioned, Plan 9 has to be in a primary partition, so that bootstrap loaders can find it (unlike, say, Linux swap, which has no right to be in a valuable primary partition, but I digress). Russ --upas-tiivhkhonxomxtsyygsxmjejxg--