From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Brian L.Stuart <blstuart@bellsouth.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] installation procedure question
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:41:40 -0600
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> While searching for info on how to get this to work with the grub 
> bootloader, I found this on a forum:
>
> Cd anyone comment on this or, even better, suggest a way to avoid this 
> happening if true? I am thinking of installing onto a Dell PIII laptop 
> with 6 other OSs currently on it. I wanted to put Plan 9 on the final 
> primary partition on the drive and continue to use Grub as a bootloader.

I can't speak authoritatively, but I can relate how I installed
it on mine using grub.  The short answer is that I selected
the option that installs the boot loader in the partition's boot
block, rather than the disk's MBR.  Then I configured grub
to act much like you do for Windows.  The actual grub entry
I have looks like:

title=Plan9
  rootnoverify (hd0,1)
  chainloader +1

Now having said that, I must also say that I seem to always
end up doing something wrong along the way.  Almost every
time I do an install, I end up having to manually mess with
the DOS partition where the kernel and plan9.ini are kept.
But I've been able to successfully install it several times
without killing the other OSs on the machine.

One caveat:  It's been a while since I last did this, so my
memory of details may be a bit fuzzy.

BLS