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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:09:00 +1000
From: Adrian Tritschler <ajft@ajft.org>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Reinstalled system still won't boot
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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 siz=
e=20
>>and order that it created them.
>=20
>=20
> 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=20
now I can boot the system from the hard disk.  Maybe "in the future"=20
I'll dig around and try to find why the recent 9load won't load on this=20
system.

For anyone interested:

Booting is now via WinXP's boot manager, the NTFS partition is marked as=20
active, the C:\BOOT.INI contains a line to include "C:\Bootsect.p9" in=20
the start menu.

> -- Richard

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Adrian Tritschler                          mailto:ajft@ajft.org
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