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From: rgr@sdf.lonestar.org (Rob Ristroph)
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] no rio ?
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Date: Tue,  8 Jul 2003 11:50:19 -0500
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>>>>> "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