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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:29:21 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso
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> I solved this by deleting everything for the fat partition (which was a
> fat16lba, not a 9fat) and then copy the files in the right order all this
> done in vista
>
> it worked

i believe io.sys in dos must be contiguous, too.
http://www.csulb.edu/~murdock/format.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IO.SYS
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/66530/en-us

i had always wondered why plan9.ini was the way
it is.  i had not realized that it is compatable with config.sys
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONFIG.SYS

does anyone know the reason for this?

- erik