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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Subject: [9fans] booting plan 9 from LILO (was matrox ...)
Date: Sat,  4 May 2002 13:35:08 -0400
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> 2.  I installed plan9 on the 2nd partition of my secondary master (/dev/hdc2
> on linux). I made an 'other' entry in lilo.conf and run lilo. When I try to
> boot to plan9, I get an error that the disk is not a bootable. So what could
> be going wrong here?

I suspect the problem is that Plan 9 doesn't know how to boot
from anything but the primary master.  More precisely, I don't
know how that would work and so I'm not surprised that it
doesn't.

It could be that we're not dealing with LILO properly
at all, although I think some people have gotten it working.  I would
try it myself on my laptop but I'm afraid to wipe my MBR,
since I'm not 100% sure how to put the Windows 2000 one back.

Anyone want to share LILO success stories?

Russ