[9fans] booting plan 9 from LILO (was matrox ...)

[Jatin Nansi <jatin.nansi@timesgroup.com>]

Hi,

Since you say so, I redid the installation on a partition on the
primary master (/dev/hda2 on linux). And I also configured
lilo accordingly. Now I get the following:

PBS ... Bad format or I/O error
Press a key to reboot...

And I get stuck again.
Any ideas ?

Jatin

PS1: I dont know how the pointer looks when I boot into plan9
on the matrox G450, since I have yet to get the system to boot.
PS2: The AMD system in my earlier mail is another PC, and the wierd
thing is that on my PIII 500 MHz, the same floppy works just fine,
while i have the mount problem on the AMD.

Its just not my day :)

> I suspect the problem is that Plan 9 doesn't know how to boot
> from anything but the primary master.  More precisely, I don't
> know how that would work and so I'm not surprised that it
> doesn't.

> It could be that we're not dealing with LILO properly
> at all, although I think some people have gotten it working.  I would
> try it myself on my laptop but I'm afraid to wipe my MBR,
> since I'm not 100% sure how to put the Windows 2000 one back.

> Anyone want to share LILO success stories?

> Russ