From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Stalker To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <3598.1158913239.1@maths.tcd.ie> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:20:39 +0100 Message-ID: <200609220920.aa55593@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Subject: [9fans] sharing venti with p9p Topicbox-Message-UUID: bf4d148c-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 This question is inspired by my current install problems, but I think it is of more general interest. What I want is a multiboot system with a fossil+venti plan9 system sharing a disk with an another os, in this case FreeBSD, which has plan9ports installed. I expect many of you have a similar setup. What I have is each os living on its own dos partition, slice in BSD language, with its own disklabel. The venti lives in a partition on the plan9 slice and is therefore invisible to p9p, since FreeBSD can't read the plan9 disklabel. In particular, I can't use the venti/checkindex or venti/checkarenas from p9p as a diagnostic tool when plan9 fails to boot. It seems I ought to have put isect and arenas in separate slices so as to be able to get at them independently of which os is booted. Is this possible? If so, can I also write to the venti from p9p without problems? From my understanding of venti this ought to work, but my understanding of venti is pretty shallow at this point. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282