[9fans] Booting Plan9 standalone and in vmware

[Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>]

I've been trying to get my Plan 9 installation to boot either from power 
on (I use grub as my boot loader, and the disk in question is on 
#S/sdD0, and that boots fine that way), or from vmware (where if I mount 
both disks, I get grub, select my plan 9 option, and it boots fine).  
The catch comes that most of the time my machine comes us as linux, and 
I want it to reboot that way automatically.  If I'm slow on the uptake 
in vmware, it tries to boot my linux partition and things go to hell in 
a handbasket. 

I'd like to set up my vmware machine to use my machine's /dev/hdc as 
#S/sdC0 so that I can use the mbr on that drive to get into plan9 
directly when using the vm.  Doing so, boot requests a root drive and 
user, then prints:
time...
fossil(#S/sdC0/fossil)...fsOpen: open /dev/sdD0/fossil: 
'/dev/sdD0/fossil does not exist'

etc, ending in a panic: boot process died: unknown.

Where is this reference to /dev/sdD0/fossil encoded?  In asking for the 
root it correctly prompts with [local!#S/sdC0/fossil], and I would 
expect to try opening that instead of sdD0.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
    Paul