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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 install doesn't put the right MBR on the disk
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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 08:26:23 -0500
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"Fco.J.Ballesteros" wrote:
>
> > Question: How to verify and fix the PBS?
>
> I don't have a machine to do that, but verifying is easy:
> try with a pbs from the worm to see if it works (actually, try
> with versions backward in time, going back a month at a time).
> If one works and the next does not, we could diff the source perhaps.
>
> It would be hard for me these days (a story to long to tell), but I
> can send whoever can test it a copy of the different pbss.

Question: How to put [pbs | pbslba] on the HD of an already installed
system? Maybe, something like:

    Backup the files in 9fat;

    disk/format -b /386/[pbs|pbslba] -df /dev/sdC0!9fat

    Restore the files to 9fat.

Thanks, Bob
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