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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Installing and partitioning for plan9
Date: Sat,  6 May 2006 10:04:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9af2c23c421e1a4002309e8caca46ec5@swtch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200605060537.18690.gholmer@ameritech.net>

> I agree; it wasn't clear how to specify that the loader should go only 
> in the partition's boot sector, although I did end up with a perfect 
> install that GRUB could start.

The partition boot sector *always* gets installed in the Plan 9 partition.
(Otherwise it wouldn't be a bootable partition.)

The questions are about setting up a way to get into that,
i.e. a master boot record or some such.

Russ



      reply	other threads:[~2006-05-06 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-04 22:48 [9fans] " Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-05-05  4:00 ` Russ Cox
2006-05-05 23:43   ` [9fans] " Paweł Lasek
2006-05-06  8:24     ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-05-06 10:37       ` Glenn Holmer
2006-05-06 15:04         ` Russ Cox [this message]

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