Re: [9fans] Reinstalled system still won't boot

[Adrian Tritschler <ajft@ajft.org>]

Richard Miller wrote:
>>>Does the disk have a DOS or 9fat partition holding a plan9.ini file?
>>
>>It has the partitions that the install CD offered to create, in the size 
>>and order that it created them.
> 
> 
> It looks to me as if the 9fat partition is not being found by the
> 9load on your hard drive.  Is it identical to the 9load on the
> floppy which boots successfully?  Can you build a 9load with
> debugging output turned on (e.g. trace in part.c, parttrace
> in devsd.c and chatty in dosboot.c), put that on 9fat and try
> to boot with it?

Thanks for that.

I copied the 9load from the very old floppy (15-Feb-2002) to /n/9fat and 
now I can boot the system from the hard disk.  Maybe "in the future" 
I'll dig around and try to find why the recent 9load won't load on this 
system.

For anyone interested:

Booting is now via WinXP's boot manager, the NTFS partition is marked as 
active, the C:\BOOT.INI contains a line to include "C:\Bootsect.p9" in 
the start menu.

> -- Richard

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Adrian Tritschler                          mailto:ajft@ajft.org
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