From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3a2e297c22c3768943684a996b9b90af@plan9.bell-labs.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: RE: [9fans] winnt boot method - hand editing boot.ini From: "Russ Cox" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 17:38:43 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: eed8c14e-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > Perhaps, if someone has figured out how to boot Plan 9 with it, grub > would do the trick. It boots the NT based OS's just fine with it's Our kernels make no attempt at being multiboot compliant, and we need some special environment setup anyway (plan9.ini contents are left at a certain address in memory). The other problem with grub, as I understand it, is that it requires config info. I'm sick of configuring things. I want a boot manager that just says ``here are the partitions i found; pick one to boot.'' Configuring means running some non-Plan 9 operating system (usually Linux). That's not acceptable, mainly because I might not have the operating system du jour on the machine in question. > I use Smart BootManager ( http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/ ). Though I > don't use it as my regular boot manager, I use it all the time on older > hardware to boot from CD when the BIOS won't support it. This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! Russ