Re: [9fans] 9load vs vista, momentus drives

["Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>]

erik did all the work and now Plan 9 boots on this machine

thanks erik

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:46 PM, erik quanstrom<quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> since fgb is so cool, he let me debug on his back.
> we found a couple of non-obvious problems on an
> ich9r laptop with a segate momentus drive.
>
> if you're dual-booting plan 9 with vista, it's a good idea to avoid
> using a fat16 partition because vista will create a type 0xe
> (fat16lba) partition, which the current 9load won't recognize.
> contrib/9load-e820 will recognize that partition type.
>
> also the momentus hard drive didn't send or the ich9r
> didn't bother receiving the setdevicebits fis and 9load
> didn't have a large enough stick to wack some sense into 'em.
> now the original problem may still be my fault, but at least
> we can get the drive back to reality.
>
> in summary,
> 9load-e820: now with extra FAT and larger stick!
>
> - erik
>
>



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Federico G. Benavento