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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Serious Problem Running Plan 9 on Virtual PC
From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri,  1 Feb 2008 10:43:36 -0500
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> I have noticed an eccentricity: when the live system boots, it boots from
> #S/dev/sdD0/data but the installed system boots from #S/dev/sdC0/fossil. I
> tried changing that to #S/dev/sdC0/data, but then the boot process
> complains that it cannot find /boot/kfs and stops.

that's because you boot from a (virtual?) cdrom during the install process.
typically this is sdD0.  when you boot from the normal system, you boot
from the virtual hard drive, sdC0.  the super special el torito process
makes a cdrom appear differently when its booted from than when
it's just accessed normally.

- erik