From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Apurva Mehta To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] panic exeption/interrupt 14 Message-Id: <20030620212802.172f89ba.apurva@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <2a37c247aae9b8c9f37b893a649d9169@plan9.bell-labs.com> References: <2a37c247aae9b8c9f37b893a649d9169@plan9.bell-labs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:28:02 +0530 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d3096d8c-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:48:06 -0400 "Russ Cox" wrote: > > My bios is capable of booting from a slave disk, so I am tempted > > to set the boot method to 'plan9'. However, I am weary that it may > > write to the MBR of my first hard disk (on which GRUB is > > installed). I want it to install to the MBR of my second hard > > disk. Where will it install? > > If you choose 'plan9', it will set the Plan 9 partition active > in the MBR of the disk containing the Plan 9 partition. > > You don't need to choose any boot method at all if you > are going to use GRUB -- just point it at the Plan 9 partition > (type 0x39) that you've got and it should be all set. I am no grub guru, where do I put '0x39'? Here is my current grub configuration for plan9: -- rootnoverify(hd1, 1) chainloader --force +1 makeactive boot -- Thanks, - Apurva