From: rgr@sdf.lonestar.org (Rob Ristroph)
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] no rio ?
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:50:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k7at55f8.fsf@rgristroph-austin.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000f01c34539$e6fb7f00$d2944251@insultant.net>
>>>>> "rounin" == rounin boyd <boyd> writes:
rounin>
>> I can't answer your questions; I first wiped the machine and
>> installed another OS to test the hardware, and then I re-downloaded
>> Plan 9 this morning and tried again; this time Plan 9 won't
>> overwrite the MBR, so the old OS's bootloader keeps coming up, no
>> matter how many times I do "bootsetup" from the floppy. So right
>> now I can't even get to the term% prompt.
rounin>
rounin> ahh, i've got into that loop with windows 2000. in my case it
rounin> had written the MBR, but i had forgotten [re]move plan9.ini
rounin> that it had booted off.
rounin>
rounin> off course, my case was special 'cos this was a USB floppy
rounin> install on a VAIO so my plan9.ini was in c:\
rounin>
rounin> once moved to oplan9.ini it booted fine.
I wiped the entire disk so I don't think there is an old plan9.ini
hanging around. I wiped it with dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda on one
machine, and by re-partitioning the disk and installing linux on the
other.
--Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-08 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-06 23:27 David Presotto
2003-07-08 2:50 ` Rob Ristroph
2003-07-08 10:15 ` boyd, rounin
2003-07-08 16:50 ` Rob Ristroph [this message]
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2003-07-06 21:48 Rob Ristroph
2003-07-06 23:04 ` andrey mirtchovski
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