From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <92280bae8483064e5befced4f1aa60dc@quintile.net> From: "Steve Simon" Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:09:53 +0100 To: mteege@gmail.com, 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] mbr: writing MBR: i/o error In-Reply-To: <88a4775604093008282f8ee64e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: eb0c1b80-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Have you prep'ed the seccond disk? disk/fdisk tweeks the MSDOS partition table, allowing you to make a plan9 slice disk/prep tweeks the plan9 partition table inside the plan9 slice. look at the contents of cat /dev/sd[CD]0/ctl which is filled in with the partitions as configured by disk/prep. -Steve