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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: [9fans] how to boot from hard disk?
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 08:26:11 +0000
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I've wasted a lot of time trying to get the following three OSes
to be simultaneously bootable from partitions on the primary
master IDE disk (using System Commander 8 as a boot manager):
	Windows Me
	Plan 9 r.4
	Solaris 9
Currently I have Plan 9 and Solaris installed on partitions
on other disks (IDE and/or SCSI) and they don't boot successfully
even though they have, in the past, on other PCs using System
Commander.  One possible factor is that I have 120GB and 95GB
IDE disks.  I would appreciate help getting bootable versions
working.  For example, can I boot via floppy then copy the
installed files to a partition on the primary master disk and
do something magic to install a working MBR?
I have figured out what "P.C." stands for!