Re: Re: [9fans] Removing grub after installing Plan 9

Re: Re: [9fans] Removing grub after installing Plan 9

[fu]

Don`t discount Grub, it is very strong and plan9 friendly, It installs to the MBR, fdisk on linux has an option to clear it , a windows fdisk will erase it with fdisk /mbr , or you can dd 512 out of /dev/zero to the MBR.
For GRUB all you need is to define the root partition for 9

In the grub shell try:

root (hd0,0)  /*or what ever your 9 part is */
rootnoverify
chainloader +1
boot


> 
> From: Matt Pidd-Cheshire <mattjpc@gmail.com>
> Date: 2004/06/14 Mon PM 05:29:48 EDT
> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [9fans] Removing grub after installing Plan 9
> 
> Vester Thacker wrote:
> 
> > Is there an easy way to remove Grub after Plan 9 install?
> > I'd rather not use Grub. Any help is greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Vester Thacker
> 
> i use Slackware 8 to install lilo for multiboot if that's
> your need. it works very well.
> 
> 

Re: Re: [9fans] Removing grub after installing Plan 9

[Kenji Okamoto]

> Don`t discount Grub,

I think developper just don't have time to do it.
If someone wants to use grub, s/he can do it, I suppose.

Kenji

Re: Re: [9fans] Removing grub after installing Plan 9

[Russ Cox]

Grub's great.  I use it every day.
But if all you run on your machine is
Plan 9, you have no need for it.

Russ

Re: Re: [9fans] Removing grub after installing Plan 9

[Kenji Okamoto]

> But if all you run on your machine is
> Plan 9, you have no need for it.

Probably, most of 'Plan 9 user' do install it, and touch it
for a while like now, durin summer vacation, and forget it
soon...  ☺

By the way, Russ are you using Linux not BSDs?

Kenji