From: rgr@sdf.lonestar.org (Rob Ristroph)
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] MBR and nvidia hangups
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 11:32:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ptk2ed3o.fsf@rgristroph-austin.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85bf5959ad5584a766212d53ca7e2447@plan9.bell-labs.com>
>>>>> "David" == David Presotto <presotto@closedmind.org> writes:
David>
David> The new 'experimental' diskette will work if you edit the
David> plan9.ini to say nobootprompt=local!/boot/bzroot
David>
David> instead of
David>
David> nobootprompt=local!/bzroot
David>
David> Things have changed...
David>
David> I'll find a new way to do an experimental diskette tonight and
David> ask people to try it out. I think I've fixed the mbr problem
David> and tonight we should also have a fix for the nvidia one.
David>
David> The mbr problem (that I found) was that the install only stuck
David> in a new mbr if the plan9 partition information was bad. That
David> meant that you had to zero 9fat to get a new mbr, not easily
David> guessed.
Cool ! I'll find time for a round of testing Wednesday or Thursday.
I haven't configured the fresh install so I have nothing to loose by
repeating installs in a few different configurations, with large and
small disks. I can also try having the Plan 9 disk be other than the
first IDE device, and any other weird cases folks think should tested.
--Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-22 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-20 20:22 Rob Ristroph
2003-07-22 11:51 ` David Presotto
2003-07-22 16:32 ` Rob Ristroph [this message]
2003-07-22 19:57 ` Re[2]: " Martin Althoff
2003-07-29 13:24 ` David Presotto
2003-07-29 13:29 ` David Presotto
2003-08-07 8:39 ` gene
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