From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44296853.6060107@proweb.co.uk> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:46:11 +0100 From: matt User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Grub Boot Problem References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 23f942b2-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 http://btmgr.sourceforge.net will also do the letter swapping dance I *think* you can use it in combination with grub (not done so myself) I use it for multi-booting freebsd / windowsXp and plan9 on whatever drives one likes not that anyone would boot plan9 & windowsxp on the same machine, eh uriel ? Russ Cox wrote: >> I think I get what you mean, but why would it swap the drive letters ? >> I mean if grub already found the right partition and started it, why >> would it then mess up while calling 9load ? > > PCs are only meant to boot from the first hard drive. > Grub does some kind of magic that I don't fully understand > to convince the BIOS to pretend that the second hard drive > is the first and vice versa. If that doesn't get through to > pbs/pbslba or gets through the wrong way, then pbs/pbslba > could easily end up looking at the wrong disk for the 9fat > partition. > > Russ > >