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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: abdullahibra@gmail.com, 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] multiboot archlinux and plan9 problem
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 08:50:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <26bf751d1220fc3fb7dffacb386e42ab@kw.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d7b15569-1254-4e3b-850e-edf6d1c8a96e@googlegroups.com>

On Mon Oct 15 05:05:17 EDT 2012, abdullahibra@gmail.com wrote:
> hello everyone
> i have installed 9front on my laptop as native without any installation problem and then installed archlinux and multiboot them using grub2 from archlinux
> , and i did menuentry for plan9 and it appears but when i choose plan9 from grub menu i got this error:
> pbs..........ok
> sectsize != 512
> what is this mean? and how can i fix such error?

it means that you have a non-512-byte-sector drive (almost certainly 4k sectors)
and the boot loader isn't prepared to deal with that.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-15 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-15  9:02 visof
2012-10-15 12:50 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2012-10-15 17:34   ` cinap_lenrek

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