[9fans] 9load didn't like SUSE Linux on the disk

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* [9fans] 9load didn't like SUSE Linux on the disk
@ 2004-09-28 13:59 Brantley Coile
  2004-09-29  9:12 ` Steve Simon
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Brantley Coile @ 2004-09-28 13:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

Seems that 9load doesn't check the partition types before deciding to
doswalk a partition.  I installed SUSE Linux on my disk and couldn't
boot from the plan 9 floppy.  9load panic'ed.  After I tracked
it down to the doswalk, I fixed my problem by just removing the
partition table from the disk drive.  I haven't spent enough time
looking to find where 9load picks the partition that it thinks is a
dos partition.  Anyone know where it does this?

  Brantley

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* Re: [9fans] 9load didn't like SUSE Linux on the disk
  2004-09-28 13:59 [9fans] 9load didn't like SUSE Linux on the disk Brantley Coile
@ 2004-09-29  9:12 ` Steve Simon
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Steve Simon @ 2004-09-29  9:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

Mmm, I didn't take the time to properly understand the code but
it looks like this is what you are after. Why a Linux partition
should mess things up I don't understand.

/sys/src/boot/pc/part.c:148
/* 
 * Fetch the first dos and all plan9 partitions out of the MBR partition table.
 * We return -1 if we did not find a plan9 partition.
 */

-Steve

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