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Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 20:10:39 -0300
From: Federico Benavento <benavento@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Win2k-NTFS and plan9, dual boot
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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 =3D "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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Federico G. Benavento