* [9fans] 9load didn't like SUSE Linux on the disk
@ 2004-09-28 13:59 Brantley Coile
2004-09-29 9:12 ` Steve Simon
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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
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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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