Re: [9fans] something evil happening when partitioning a hdd with the plan9 installer

[John Soros <sorosj@gmail.com>]

Okay, now plan9 is working on my laptop, here is how I did it:
I made a primary partition for plan9 in lunix, then I used fdisk to set the partition type to plan9
(this is the only partitioning program that know plan9 type partitions).

After this all went pretty easily, I installed the standard way from cdrom, I just didn't do any
partitioning as that was already done.

For the bootsetup step I selected plan9 way of booting, and at the question wether to install plan9
loader to the MBR I answered No.

Now I can boot plan9 on the primary partition #1 from grub like so:

title           Plan9 from outer space
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
boot

Thanks for all the replies, and all the suggestions.
Cheers to all plan9 users!
I there's any plan9 users in Hungary, I'd be very happy to meet them!
John


On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 11:20:22 +0200
"Paweł Lasek" <pawel.lasek@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/9/07, John Soros <sorosj@gmail.com> wrote:
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> In this case, I'd recommend repartitioning with plain linux fdisk and
> reserve a partition for plan9 using it (Set partition type to plan9,
> you can check the number using built-in help IIRC), then during plan9
> installation just choose that partition and tell plan9 fdisk to don't
> write anything.
> 
> And somebody ought to make plan9 bootable from something other than
> primary partition (The same problem I have with Solaris 10. I could
> use those 70 GB of hdd in my school computer, but there are not enough
> primary partition numbers left for it's disklabel...)
> 
>