From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <979a1b61132e6a8d2a4576266cddc80b@quanstro.net> References: <979a1b61132e6a8d2a4576266cddc80b@quanstro.net> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:04:39 -0300 Message-ID: <32d987d50907232104y48b794c2q770c31a40ab1140b@mail.gmail.com> From: "Federico G. Benavento" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] 9load vs vista, momentus drives Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2b689152-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 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 > > -- Federico G. Benavento