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Date: Mon,  2 Jul 2007 17:14:06 +0200
From: Michal Hajek <hajek1@karlov.mff.cuni.cz>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] IBM X40 installation
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* erik quanstrom (quanstro@coraid.com) [070702 16:50]:
> he's copying the boot stuff to the hard drive because although bios can
> access the usb cdrom, 9load cannot.  it doesn't know how.  this means
> 9load can't load a kernel unless he puts it someplace else.

yes, exactly. I cannot just install form usb-cd. So my solution was to
make a dos partition (since 9load obiously can see it) and put
9pcflop.gz there. I choose 9pcflop,gz, because that was the only obvious
choice to me.  

The rest is described in my previous emails. 

Also I do not insist on using grub. Lilo would do as well, if that makes
any difference in this case. 

Best regards
Michal