From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tlaronde@polynum.com Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 16:39:21 +0200 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] IBM X40 installation - some more details, but long Message-ID: <20070702143921.GA1463@polynum.com> References: <20070702073636.GZ3938@wasi.karlov.mff.cuni.cz> <20070702134404.GB3938@wasi.karlov.mff.cuni.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070702134404.GB3938@wasi.karlov.mff.cuni.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8f0d2090-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C