From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <296c27b6baddcbc27cde0ce5fc02af56@swtch.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Grub Boot Problem From: "Russ Cox" Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:41:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 22a4c9d6-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > But when I reached the bootsetup part, I was a little confused to see > that I had only the choice between a floppy boot sidk (no floppy > drives), and updating a win* bootloader (no win*). > In addition to that, my hard drive on this machine is not sdC-, but > sdC1, I can't do anything about it, not allowed to get my hands on the > hardware or software configuration. Presumably you told grub to swap the bios drive letters. It's not clear to me how well that works for booting Plan 9. I've never tried it. It's possible that the boot sector doesn't pay attention to the remapping, so it went looking for 9load on your hda, not hdb. Russ