From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rgr@sdf.lonestar.org (Rob Ristroph) To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 install doesn't put the right MBR on the disk References: <87vfu4mkqw.fsf@rgristroph-austin.ath.cx> <620180968.20030715140735@tiscali.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <620180968.20030715140735@tiscali.co.uk> Message-ID: <87oezvl8y8.fsf@rgristroph-austin.ath.cx> User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 17:30:07 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: f8d78b0c-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >>>>> "Martin" == Martin Althoff writes: Martin> Martin> 2c. using DOS fdisk /mbr creates a MBR that is only good for Martin> 2GB partitions. You know, that explains a lot, because now I understand how I got Plan 9 working before -- I was playing around on a small, old disk, just 2 GB big. I was planing to re-install fresh on larger disks to experiment with a more permanent setup when I ran into this. --Rob