Re: [9fans] IBM X40 installation - some more details, but long

[tlaronde@polynum.com]

Hello,

Since you write that you are able to boot from the cdrom, I do not
understand why you are playing with a floppy image put on a disk, image
meant for floppy or floppy emulation (CDROM El Torito).

If I understand correctly, take the following steps:

1) Under Linux, with fdisk(8) flag the second partition to a Plan 9
dedicated one and make this partition the active one (so that the MBR 
is already correct; Plan 9 will deal with
its space [partition chunk] and slightly with the MBR [and there may be
a bug] so the MBR is the thing shared and shall be saved). Flagging the
partition as active---GRUB doesn't care since it uses its menu---will
hopefully prevent the plan 9 disk/fdisk program from dealing with the
MBR;

2) Save the MBR somewhere on a USB or whatever (no need to reinstall 
everything if something goes wrong with the MBR, just put back the MBR 
everything else is untouched);

3) Boot from the cdrom with Plan 9 and install from there to the disk.
When you come to the boot method, select Plan 9 from disk (but don't
install the boot program from Plan 9, since you have already GRUB or
whatever). Since the Plan 9 partition has already been set to active,
the MBR should be left alone.

HTH
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