* [9fans] Win2k-NTFS and plan9, dual boot
@ 2005-11-12 23:05 Steve Simon
2005-11-12 23:10 ` Federico Benavento
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From: Steve Simon @ 2005-11-12 23:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Ok, I'am being foolish but I cannot see where.
I reinstalled my laptop with Win2k with NTFS.
So I manually added a line to boot.ini:
c:\bootsect.p9 = "Plan 9 from Bell Labs"
and build a bootsect.p9:
touch /tmp/diskimg
disk/format -b /386/pbslba /tmp/diskimg
dd -bs 512 -count 1 < /tmp/diskimg > bootsect.p9
rm -f /tmp/diskimg
However when I try to boot plan9 I get:
Loading Plan9
PBS ... Bad format or I/O error
Press a key to reboot
What did I miss?
-Steve
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* Re: [9fans] Win2k-NTFS and plan9, dual boot
2005-11-12 23:05 [9fans] Win2k-NTFS and plan9, dual boot Steve Simon
@ 2005-11-12 23:10 ` Federico Benavento
2005-11-12 23:46 ` Russ Cox
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Federico Benavento @ 2005-11-12 23:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
dd -bs 512 -count 1 -if /dev/sdC0/plan9 -of bootsect.p9
On 11/12/05, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> Ok, I'am being foolish but I cannot see where.
> I reinstalled my laptop with Win2k with NTFS.
> So I manually added a line to boot.ini:
>
> c:\bootsect.p9 = "Plan 9 from Bell Labs"
>
> and build a bootsect.p9:
>
> touch /tmp/diskimg
> disk/format -b /386/pbslba /tmp/diskimg
> dd -bs 512 -count 1 < /tmp/diskimg > bootsect.p9
> rm -f /tmp/diskimg
>
> However when I try to boot plan9 I get:
>
> Loading Plan9
> PBS ... Bad format or I/O error
> Press a key to reboot
>
> What did I miss?
>
> -Steve
>
--
Federico G. Benavento
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* Re: [9fans] Win2k-NTFS and plan9, dual boot
2005-11-12 23:10 ` Federico Benavento
@ 2005-11-12 23:46 ` Russ Cox
2005-11-13 22:19 ` Adrian Tritschler
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Russ Cox @ 2005-11-12 23:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Last I knew, the NT boot loader didn't let you have
references to files on NTFS in your boot.ini.
You could use smart boot manager instead:
disk/mbr -m /n/sources/contrib/rsc/mbr.bootmgr /dev/sdC0/data
Russ
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* Re: [9fans] Win2k-NTFS and plan9, dual boot
2005-11-12 23:46 ` Russ Cox
@ 2005-11-13 22:19 ` Adrian Tritschler
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Adrian Tritschler @ 2005-11-13 22:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Russ Cox wrote:
> Last I knew, the NT boot loader didn't let you have
> references to files on NTFS in your boot.ini.
Seems that it does. I've been using it for a considerable length of time.
I've got a Windows XP system with 15G NTFS partition followed by 5G
plan9, it boots into Plan9 via the Windows boot.ini menu with
C:\bootsect.p9 being created via
dd -bs 512 -count 1 -if /dev/sdC0/plan9 -of bootsect.p9
(Machine currently has other problems, the changes in 9load circa Dec
2004 seem to have stopped 9load working, but this is unrelated to the
Windows boot menu)
> You could use smart boot manager instead:
> disk/mbr -m /n/sources/contrib/rsc/mbr.bootmgr /dev/sdC0/data
Oddly, in one incarnation of my laptop this worked, in the next it
resulted in Windows booting, plan 9 booting, then either Windows or the
bootmgr complaining that the disk was corrupt and requiring a reinstall.
ref:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.plan9/browse_thread/thread/a5f0199acf7de83a/be5a87fdc97f68e3
> Russ
Adrian
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