Re: [9fans] [SOLVED] IBM X40 installation

["Gabriel Diaz" <gabidiaz@gmail.com>]

hello

i would suggest to write your adventure on the wiki so others could
benefit from it, you can find the instructions on how to do it in the
wiki itself.

slds.

gabi


On 7/4/07, Michal Hajek <hajek1@karlov.mff.cuni.cz> wrote:
> Hello :)
>
> Let me report that I finaly succeeded!
>
> Unfortunately, I do not know what was wrong. If somebody is interested
> into researching the reasons, please let me know. Otherwise I just enjoy
> exploring plan9 system.
>
> Here is somewhat more detailed description of what I have done:
>
> I have deleted linux swap and converted it into dos partition. Than I
> left some free space and than I left 2 primary linux partitions.
>
> ------
> Orig:
>
> primary 1: linux swap (1GB)
> primary 2: dos        (1GB)
> primary 3: linux      (/boot 100MB)
> primary 4: linux      (/  cca 18GB)
>
> booted into linux and using fdisk I have changed partitioning into:
>
> primary 1: dos (1GB)
> free        (1GB)
> primary 3: linux      (/boot 100MB)
> primary 4: linux      (/  cca 18GB)
>
>
> Rebooted and started installation from usb-cdrom.
>
> However, still I got some errors during partitioning in plan9. But I
> could overcome them. I choose to load plan9 form MBR. Finaly I had
> system installed. Well, reboot...
>
> At this point, the system failed during booting. Eg. it refused to boot.
> So I inserted _linux_ boot disk, booted into linux, mounted my linux
> partition, chrooted into it and rerun grub-install (to be able to boot
> at least into linux). That went fine.
>
> Reboot.
>
> Ok, grub works and I can boot without troubles to my linux sytem.
> Now I turn back primary 1 partition into swap.
> (using $>mkswap /dev/hda1)
>
> Now I want to check, wheather I am able to boot into plan9 using
> usb-cdrom. So I put cd into usb-cdrom and reboot.
>
> The system boots into plan9 without any questioning. Cool.
>
> At this moment, I returned to my work pc and read more emails from
> 9fans. Although I checked when I was in linux - and /dev/hda2 _was_ set
> as active - now following tlaronde@polynum.com instructions, I rebooted
> into linux (remove cd from usb-cdrom  and use %fshalt 1).
>
> Inside linux (with fdisk), I removed active flag from /dev/hda2 and set
> it *again* in a wild hope, that this seemigly nonsense action can change
> something.  Write partition table and reboot.
>
> In grub command schell, I tried
> grub> rootnoverify (hd0,1)
> grub> chainloader +1
> grob> boot
>
> And voila! here I am in the plan9 system. No usb-cdrom needed. Great! :)
>
>
> Best regards
> Michal
>