From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 04:56:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120514045600.0b478d43@inari.ethans.dre.am> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM8pOuOm-OJ3A_V1jGQScf0Ec3ZLhhXjiO9zvwOhZVaJn_m8ag@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 13 May 2012 18:22:02 -0600
Burton Samograd <burton.samograd@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 9bootfat does its search by walking all partition table
> > entries (primary and secondary) on the bootdrive that
> > are marked as "active".
>
> Reading the grub docs, it sounds like an active partition is marked
> bootable and only one partition can be marked that way. Currently my
> linux partition is marked bootable but I'm not sure if it needs to be
> since grub is installed in the MBR. Any thoughts? I might just try to
> set my plan9 partition bootable and see what happens; I'm sure i can fix
> things if I can't boot later.
The active flag is quite irrelevant to Linux. I'm surprised 9bootfat
uses it.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-14 3:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-13 21:07 Burton Samograd
2012-05-13 21:48 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-05-14 0:22 ` Burton Samograd
2012-05-14 1:19 ` Burton Samograd
[not found] ` <CAM8pOuMYGKSuSMUheyWqMXaf6pKwwkb+2bb5OkfGZSK2XcEVmQ@mail.gmail.c>
2012-05-14 2:56 ` erik quanstrom
2012-05-14 3:01 ` Burton Samograd
[not found] ` <CAM8pOuPUrCogvgDOzi_B0XxrT8RZDQZ7fOB0HhCwtXhFLaSA1g@mail.gmail.c>
2012-05-14 3:10 ` erik quanstrom
2012-05-14 22:12 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-05-15 0:57 ` Burton Samograd
2012-05-15 2:05 ` sl
2012-05-15 2:28 ` erik quanstrom
2012-05-15 2:48 ` sl
2012-05-15 9:19 ` erik quanstrom
2012-05-15 2:36 ` Burton Samograd
2012-05-15 2:39 ` Burton Samograd
2012-05-15 2:57 ` sl
2012-05-15 9:11 ` erik quanstrom
2012-05-15 15:04 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-05-15 15:26 ` erik quanstrom
2012-05-15 17:11 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-05-15 19:51 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-05-15 20:29 ` Burton Samograd
2012-05-15 20:33 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-05-15 23:49 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-05-16 0:05 ` sl
[not found] ` <CAM8pOuOtwTFjJDPYo_K3L580Zv-W24_XU-ZiBjP-6p9SFkHNkA@mail.gmail.c>
2012-05-15 9:20 ` erik quanstrom
[not found] ` <CAM8pOuMnp3xPw58g-7a7O_3HhOqf9=Z=DP-XfaGXQJdWyzrVFw@mail.gmail.c>
2012-05-15 9:31 ` erik quanstrom
2012-05-15 12:19 ` Burton Samograd
2012-05-15 12:40 ` Burton Samograd
[not found] ` <CAM8pOuOdLnTgqj1BOKhZe550Cc=QvfncgqgixcCAifKQSytFJA@mail.gmail.c>
2012-05-15 13:39 ` erik quanstrom
[not found] ` <CAM8pOuMbwVj0_s+SFMdT7qHe5oAg6Yux4shm189-Pd3-Gp2+mQ@mail.gmail.c>
2012-05-15 13:28 ` erik quanstrom
2012-05-15 14:12 ` Burton Samograd
[not found] ` <D2A5C7470D67A54FACE86B838946D49D14E466F74E@NJ4MSGSCR02.markit.pa>
2012-05-15 15:02 ` erik quanstrom
2012-05-15 2:26 ` erik quanstrom
2012-05-14 3:56 ` Ethan Grammatikidis [this message]
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