From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200311300023.hAU0N06B006463@math.Princeton.EDU> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] restoring p9 boot blocks In-reply-to: <17a097933585f97a36293e35e844e4ec@plan9.ucalgary.ca> References: <17a097933585f97a36293e35e844e4ec@plan9.ucalgary.ca> From: John Stalker Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 19:23:00 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9826ffa8-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Unfortunately it's an extended partition, so disk/fdisk won't set it as active. I believe that's a limitation of the pc architecture rather than of fdisk itself. This is, in fact, the main problem with installing FreeBSD on an extended partition. plan9 is supposed to be happy on an extended partition, or rather I know I've done it in the past without incident. > try setting the 'bootable' flag on the 9fat partition in disk/prep... > > i remember this solving my problem several times in both plan9 and freesbd :) > > andrey > -- John Stalker Department of Mathematics Princeton University (609)258-6469