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] MBR and nvidia hangups
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 11:32:43 -0500
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>>>>> "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