Re: Re: [9fans] something evil happening when partitioning a hdd with the plan9 installer

Re: Re: [9fans] something evil happening when partitioning a hdd with the plan9 installer

[Brian L.Stuart]

> Grub is complaining that it can't boot the partition. 

That would make me suspect that the Plan 9 boot block didn't
get installed in the relevant partition.  But that's more a guess
than a knowlegable answer.

> Howcome /dev/hda1 is the second partition on your system?

Oops.  My mistake.  It's /dev/hda2.

BLS

Re: Re: [9fans] something evil happening when partitioning a hdd with the plan9 installer

[Brian L.Stuart]

> Also, I still can not boot plan9 from grub for some odd reason. I tells me it can't bot the system.
> Plan9 is on the /dev/sda1 partition, and here is how I am trying to boot it in grub:
> 
> root (hd0,0)
> chainloader +1
> boot
> 
> I also tried putting rootnoverify instead of root, but it doesn't work either, and I also tried the makeactive option after root (hd0,0), but again, no avail.

That's pretty close to what I have.  Mine is installed on /dev/hda1 (the
second primary partition) and my grub entry looks like:

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

So in principal, if everything is set up correctly and you have the Plan 9
boot block at the beginning of the partition, it should work.  Is the
error coming from Plan 9 or from grub?

BLS