[9fans] [SOLVED] IBM X40 installation

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

Hello :)

Let me report that I finaly succeeded!

Unfortunately, I do not know what was wrong. If somebody is interested
into researching the reasons, please let me know. Otherwise I just enjoy
exploring plan9 system. 

Here is somewhat more detailed description of what I have done:

I have deleted linux swap and converted it into dos partition. Than I
left some free space and than I left 2 primary linux partitions.

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Orig:

primary 1: linux swap (1GB)
primary 2: dos        (1GB)
primary 3: linux      (/boot 100MB)
primary 4: linux      (/  cca 18GB)

booted into linux and using fdisk I have changed partitioning into: 

primary 1: dos (1GB)
free        (1GB)
primary 3: linux      (/boot 100MB)
primary 4: linux      (/  cca 18GB)


Rebooted and started installation from usb-cdrom. 

However, still I got some errors during partitioning in plan9. But I
could overcome them. I choose to load plan9 form MBR. Finaly I had
system installed. Well, reboot...

At this point, the system failed during booting. Eg. it refused to boot. 
So I inserted _linux_ boot disk, booted into linux, mounted my linux
partition, chrooted into it and rerun grub-install (to be able to boot
at least into linux). That went fine. 

Reboot. 

Ok, grub works and I can boot without troubles to my linux sytem. 
Now I turn back primary 1 partition into swap. 
(using $>mkswap /dev/hda1)

Now I want to check, wheather I am able to boot into plan9 using
usb-cdrom. So I put cd into usb-cdrom and reboot. 

The system boots into plan9 without any questioning. Cool. 

At this moment, I returned to my work pc and read more emails from
9fans. Although I checked when I was in linux - and /dev/hda2 _was_ set
as active - now following tlaronde@polynum.com instructions, I rebooted
into linux (remove cd from usb-cdrom  and use %fshalt 1).

Inside linux (with fdisk), I removed active flag from /dev/hda2 and set
it *again* in a wild hope, that this seemigly nonsense action can change
something.  Write partition table and reboot.

In grub command schell, I tried
grub> rootnoverify (hd0,1)
grub> chainloader +1
grob> boot

And voila! here I am in the plan9 system. No usb-cdrom needed. Great! :)


Best regards
Michal