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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 as Unix client?
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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:04:09 -0400
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The /n/a:/bootsect.p9 trick doesn't work if the boot file system
isn't FAT.  Even if Plan 9 read NTFS, the NT boot loader won't use it.

Try Smart BootManager (http://btmgr.sf.net), mentioned on the
list a few weeks ago.

	hget http://pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~rsc/mbr.bootmgr >/386/mbr.bootmgr
	disk/mbr -m /386/mbr.bootmgr /dev/sdC0/data

The interface has some flaws, but on the whole it's reasonable,
and it doesn't require any particular OS to configure.  I've been
using it to dual-boot Windows XP and Plan 9 without problems.

Russ