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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:56:20 +0300
From: Sasha and Tanya Kapshuk <sashaandtanya@gmail.com>
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] booting options for brand new installation
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On 09/15/2011 12:57 AM, Richard Miller wrote:
>> i want to boot plan9 using grub.
>>
> My /boot/grub/menu.lst includes these lines:
>
> title       Plan 9
> root        (hd0,1)
> chainloader +1
>
> and the corresponding partition has /386/pbslba as a boot block --
> see format(8).
>
>
>
>
thanks for the tip, Richard, but i found that debian squeeze doesn't
have /boot/grub/menu.lst anymore.
i tried googling for instructions on how to add alternative systems to
grub2, but so far haven't found anything substantial;
the only thing i did try was i added this to /etc/grub.d/40_custom:
menuentry "Plan9 from Bell Labs" {
     insmod chain
     insmod fat16
     set root=(hd0,1)
     chainloader +1
}

then i ran update-grub as root and rebooted the system;

this time "Plan9 from Bell Labs" did appear in the grub menu; i selected
it and got an error: message: error: invalid signature

the right way of doing it isn't immediately obvious to me;

any input would be appreciated;

sasha kapshuk.