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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 
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>> 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.

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John Stalker
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Trinity College Dublin
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