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Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:40:58 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] usb disks in plan9
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There are two distinct issues: booting from USB devices and
partitioning USB devices.  I believe that if you follow the directions
at the end of prep(8), you have a modern BIOS, and it isn't too buggy,
you should be able to boot from a FAT file system on a USB device
(that is, load a kernel from it).  Depending upon your BIOS's
treatment of USB boot devices, you may need to use 9load's bios0
device rather than, say, sdC0, and that in turn requires *nobiosload
to not be defined in plan9.ini.

I'm talking to nemo about what we should do to partition USB devices.