From: John Stalker <stalker@Math.Princeton.EDU>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Dual Boot: OpenBSD <=> Plan9
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 13:37:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200306091737.h59Hbmv24323@fine1008.math.Princeton.EDU> (raw)
>> > whatever you do, don't get that lunix grub on your disk -- ouch!
>>
>> Why? just from my curiousity.
>
>i'm no pc guru, but you can get into a state where nothing boots.
>
>well, it boots but is as useful as a 'hot rock'; interesting, but useless.
Indeed. It did this me a few weeks weeks ago. My NetBSD partition never
recovered from whatever it did--not that I tried very hard. Assuming you
don't want to boot an extended partition or a partition on a disk not
recognized by the BIOS the most trouble-free option is a BSD boot sector.
I use a FreeBSD boot manager. It just sits there in the MBR and never requires
any sort of reconfiguration if you move partitions around, upgrade kernels,
install or deinstall operating systems, etc.
--
John Stalker
Department of Mathematics
Princeton University
(609)258-6469
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2003-06-09 17:37 John Stalker [this message]
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2003-06-09 21:19 Keith Nash
2003-06-09 23:10 ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2003-06-08 3:02 John Stalker
2003-06-06 9:12 Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2003-06-06 10:08 ` Richard Miller
2003-06-06 12:08 ` Sam
2003-06-06 15:56 ` Jack Johnson
2003-06-06 18:35 ` Charles Smith (chas)
2003-06-06 22:57 ` Kenji Arisawa
2003-06-06 23:01 ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-06 23:39 ` Jason Gurtz
2003-06-07 0:07 ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-07 1:07 ` Russ Cox
2003-06-09 2:21 ` okamoto
2003-06-09 4:54 ` boyd, rounin
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