From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Marcks v W To: David Leimbach , Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] boot problem Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 09:53:19 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200506101709.25026.tomten@tomten.hopto.org> <3e1162e60506092130794c7f8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60506092130794c7f8@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506110953.19570.tomten@tomten.hopto.org> Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5d51cf12-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 when the boot loader shud start it prints out "MBR..." on the secreen and then the system hangs. my plan 9 instalation wont install a boot floppydisk for me for some reason (it cant detect a floppy drive i think). Bicous im new at plan9 i dont know how the partisions and disk handeling works so i falid to manualy create a boot disk. On Friday 10 June 2005 06:30, David Leimbach wrote: > On 6/10/05, Thomas Marcks v W wrote: > > Hi, i am having broblem with booting plan9. after the install i reboot > > and all i get is MBR... how do i solv this problem? > > I'm confused by "all I get is MBR". > > Can you elaborate a bit. What do you see? > > I've basically gone the route of using a boot floppy nowadays myself. > It's a bit easier than blowing away my other bootloader configuration > for the other OSes I run. > > Of course if you are on a dedicated plan 9 box you probably do want to > avoid the floppy [and possibly even the hard disk if that's possible > depending on BIOS settings]