From: John Stalker <stalker@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] something evil happening when partitioning a hdd with the plan9 installer
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:21:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200704192121.aa62063@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4627CCBF.20103@conducive.org>
>> And somebody ought to make plan9 bootable from something other than primary
>> partition (The same problem I have with Solaris 10. I could use those 70 GB
>> of hdd in my school computer, but there are not enough primary partition
>> numbers left for it's disklabel...)
>
> I have not yet attempted booting Plan9 from an 'extended' partition, but have
>
> been able to use block-mode loaders to start it from a 'primary' partition
> (slice) on a 200 GB HDD that was otherwise out of the reach of the BIOS (3 ol
> der
> MB tested, some with 1999 vintage BIOS).
>
> It should be equally possible to start Plan9 from a non-primary partition -
> perhaps the real issue is not 'reaching' it, but whether it can understand
> where it is and finish the boot?
It can. I run it from an extended partition.
--
John Stalker
School of Mathematics
Trinity College Dublin
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fax +353 1 896 2282
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-19 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-09 3:51 John Soros
2007-04-09 9:20 ` Paweł Lasek
2007-04-09 19:58 ` John Soros
2007-04-19 16:06 ` John Soros
2007-04-19 19:35 ` John Stalker
2007-04-19 20:10 ` W B Hacker
2007-04-19 20:21 ` John Stalker [this message]
2007-04-09 9:52 ` John Stalker
2007-04-09 10:32 ` matt
2007-04-09 10:49 ` John Stalker
2007-04-09 20:07 Brian L.Stuart
2007-04-09 23:34 ` John Soros
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