From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4E710D26.9090709@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:23:02 +0300 From: Sasha and Tanya Kapshuk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110818 Icedove/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] booting options for brand new installation Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1de58632-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 howdy, i've installed plan9 on a separate partition of my hard drive alongside debian linux. i'm not 100% clear on what boot option is best for a setting like this. i want to boot plan9 using grub. if that's not doable, can anyone please suggest an alternative way of doing it. sasha kapshuk. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <6b9dac09ba25a00c4488f8cbec8dc514@hamnavoe.com> To: 9fans@9fans.net From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:57:56 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4E710D26.9090709@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] booting options for brand new installation Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1eca32dc-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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). From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <6b9dac09ba25a00c4488f8cbec8dc514@hamnavoe.com> References: <4E710D26.9090709@gmail.com> <6b9dac09ba25a00c4488f8cbec8dc514@hamnavoe.com> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:53:12 +0300 Message-ID: From: Sasha and Tanya Kapshuk To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd709c6db150204acf8ae73 Subject: Re: [9fans] booting options for brand new installation Topicbox-Message-UUID: 20b50554-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --000e0cd709c6db150204acf8ae73 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 thanks a lot. i'll give that a try. On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> 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). > > > > --000e0cd709c6db150204acf8ae73 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable thanks a lot.

i'll give that a try.

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Richard Mill= er <9fans@hamnav= oe.com> wrote:
> i want to boot plan9= using grub.

My /boot/grub/menu.lst includes these lines:

title =A0 =A0 =A0 Plan 9
root =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0(hd0,1)
chainloader +1

and the corresponding partition has /386/pbslba as a boot block --
see format(8).




--000e0cd709c6db150204acf8ae73-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4E725864.9000904@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:56:20 +0300 From: Sasha and Tanya Kapshuk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110818 Icedove/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <6b9dac09ba25a00c4488f8cbec8dc514@hamnavoe.com> In-Reply-To: <6b9dac09ba25a00c4488f8cbec8dc514@hamnavoe.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] booting options for brand new installation Topicbox-Message-UUID: 223fcfb2-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4E7261D3.7020401@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 23:36:35 +0300 From: Sasha and Tanya Kapshuk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110818 Icedove/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <6b9dac09ba25a00c4488f8cbec8dc514@hamnavoe.com> <4E725864.9000904@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E725864.9000904@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] booting options for brand new installation [UPDATE] Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2251b9de-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 09/15/2011 10:56 PM, Sasha and Tanya Kapshuk wrote: > 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. > i found what the problem was... my plan9 partition is /dev/sda3, so the following entry in the /etc/grub.d/40_custom file should read: menuentry "Plan9 from Bell Labs" { insmod chain insmod fat16 set root=(hd0,3) #not set root=(hd0,1) chainloader +1 } it should be followed by running update-grub and rebooting the system; the instructions above are confirmed to have worked on my system;