[9fans] IBM X40 installation

[Michal Hajek <hajek1@karlov.mff.cuni.cz>]

Hello,

I have some trouble installing plan9 on IBM Thinkpad X40.

Since I do not have any docking station or port replicator or whatever
enhancements IBM sells, I tried to install only using USB-CDROM and
USB-FLOPPY.

Beforehand, I have already linux installed on that machine. That is,
only linux (no windows).

So far I succeeded to install plan9 in such a way, that I am able to
boot from cd and than proceed to the plan9 system on the hdd.

Now I would like to make plan9 bootable without any usb-cdrom.

My idea is to use grub with

rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
boot

But unfortunately, this does not work. (the loader asked for floppy -
which I cannot supply, since I do not have any floppy drive).

So I booted from usb-cd, moved to plan9 system on the disk nad issued:

%disk/format -b /386/pbslba /dev/sdC0/9fat

which responded with:

% 0 bytes used

Now if I reboot and supply manualy above stated commands to grub,
I get this:
PBS2...Bad format or I/O error
Press a key to reboot...

I am new to plan9 but I guess something analogical to
"grub-install" is perhaps needet from inside of plan9 system, right?

I have searched through tha 9fans archives and also I have ask at irc
channel, but without any succes. Can anyone help me to sort this out? :)

Thank you in advance.

One other way would be to install everything from screatch, if only that
would be possible using just usb-key. Unfortunately, I could not find
any info on plan9 installations from usb-key. Does it mean this way is
not supported?

Best regards
Michal