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Date: Sun,  2 Jan 2011 10:00:15 +0800
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VirtualBox 4.0
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On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 11:05 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wro=
te:
>> MBR...PBS1...Bad Format or I/O error
>> Press a key to reboot...
>>
>> reinstalling 9atom over the plan9.iso installation fixed everything,
>> it's bootable and with netwrok support.
>
> that's quite wierd. =A0can you reproduce this error?

I tried to do a fresh reinstall a few times, so in my case it's at
least repeatable on
a macbook.

>
> if so, can you try running fdisk and prep by hand
> and seeing if the output makes sense? =A0also, one
> can compare the first sector of the disk with the
> mbr and the first sector of the plan 9 partition
> with pbs. =A0they should be the same, modulo the
> bits that disk/mbr fiddle.
>

you may need to give a least of commands to try as I am not sure
how to do this in plan9.