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From: David Presotto <presotto@closedmind.org>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] MBR and nvidia hangups
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 07:51:51 -0400
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The new 'experimental' diskette will work if you edit the plan9.ini to say

nobootprompt=local!/boot/bzroot

instead of

nobootprompt=local!/bzroot

Things have changed...

I'll find a new way to do an experimental diskette tonight and
ask people to try it out.  I think I've fixed the mbr problem
and tonight we should also have a fix for the nvidia one.

The mbr problem (that I found) was that the install only stuck
in a new mbr if the plan9 partition information was bad.  That
meant that you had to zero 9fat to get a new mbr, not easily
guessed.