From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] bug fix to /sys/src/libdisk/disk.c and /386/bin/format
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 09:01:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39F25303.9417B14F@null.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200010210808.e9L88PG47491@ducky.net>
Mike Haertel wrote:
> Upon attempting to boot Plan 9, I got to PBS, and then got
> the failure: Bad format.
Yeah, that has also happened to me (even before the latest big
update) with either the Win/NT multiboot (BOOT.INI) hook or the
partition boot method. (The boot floppy method works. Windows
ME doesn't support CONFIG.SYS/AUTOBOOT.SYS, so the Windows 9x
method doesn't work for Win/ME.) I hope your patch will enable
construction of a usable boot block. The interaction of Win/ME,
Win/2K, Solaris 8 (x86 boot manager partition), and Plan 9
mangling of the PBR has caused me to rebuild, several times,
*everything* on the 3 20.5MB IDE disks on the new system I'm
trying to get set up (which should eventually take over from
the one I'm typing this on).
Perhaps a working Plan 9 boot block (512 bytes) could be
placed on the distribution updates page? (One could floppy-
boot the system then copy the new block into place.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-10-23 9:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-21 8:08 Mike Haertel
2000-10-23 9:01 ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
2000-10-23 17:48 ` Mike Haertel
2000-10-21 14:10 Russ Cox
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