From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <6e35c0620412221022793f2793@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 10:22:17 -0800 From: Jack Johnson To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] New to Plan 9 In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1b8ff916-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 22:52:22 +0000, James Fox wrote: > Basically, whether I let Plan 9 install it's bootloader in the MBR, or I > try to chainload (using the Solaris or FreeBSD multi-booters), the booting > fails immedialy, with either the message 'MBR...Error!' if I use the Plan 9 > bootloader, or just '...Error!' if I use another bootloader. I seem to recall having issues with various bootloaders (though not necessarily Plan 9's) when clobbering one OS with another. As standard practice I tend to nuke the MBR each time now with an old Win98 floppy and 'fdisk /mbr' (I think) just to make sure it's clean. 2K/XP has a 'fixmbr' that does a similar trick (possibly leaving behind some carnage) which seems to be easily clobbered by any other bootloader. At least a couple of us here have gravitated toward Smart Bootmanager: http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html It tends to be friendly toward just about any OS and is insanely useful for booting any ancient machines off CD-ROM in a pinch (or for an install). Good luck! -Jack