From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: <39F25303.9417B14F@null.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200010210808.e9L88PG47491@ducky.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] bug fix to /sys/src/libdisk/disk.c and /386/bin/format Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 09:01:40 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1c013b8a-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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.)