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From: tlaronde@polynum.com
Date: Tue,  3 Jul 2007 17:39:34 +0200
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] IBM X40 installation
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On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 05:06:21PM +0200, Michal Hajek wrote:
> After reboot, I could get to boot plan9 up to the point where it asks
> about kernel. At the same time it shows these bootable devices: 
> 
> fd0, sdC0!dos, sdC0!9dos.
  ^^^
> 
> So I feed it with: 
> sdC0!9dos!9pcf


Please note my previous message: fd0 appears (this is a "floppy") since
the BIOS supporting El Torito (boot from CDROM in short) presents a
virtual floppy that points to the floppy image embedded in the CDROM.

So please at least try my previous tips:

1) Let your already allocated primary partitions, including swap (reput
it as swap) alone;

2) Use Linux fdisk(8) to flag the second partion as a Plan 9, active;

3) Save the MBR somewhere;

4) Boot from CDROM and when 9load asks for a bootfile enter:

fd0!9pcflop.gz /* idem as fd0!dos!9pcflop.gz */

or whatever kernel is on the floppy image (embedded in the CDROM; shall
be the same as the one you copied).

5) Normal installation here follow carefully the steps.
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