From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] booting plan 9 from LILO (was matrox ...) In-Reply-To: <5b0661baed9d9ed48792f5a5cce0d972@plan9.bell-labs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 14:47:30 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 881acdc6-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I haven't set up lilo to boot plan9, but I have set up lilo to boot windows from the second ide channel, which windows doesn't willingly do. It involved adding special lines in lilo.conf to make windows think he was on the primary channel. I can't recall the precise magick, but odds are you can google for it. Alternatively, I believe you should be able to change the line boot=/dev/hdX in your lilo.conf file to point to the second drive, install the boot block there, power down, swap the drives on your ide chain and reboot. Linux boots fine from the secondary channel, if I recall correctly. If you futz it up, some flavour of rescue disk might be handy. ;) If you're super brave, you could always poke around in the lilo code until you find the undocumented feature you're looking for. ;-X Sam On Sat, 4 May 2002, Russ Cox wrote: > > 2. I installed plan9 on the 2nd partition of my secondary master (/dev/hdc2 > > on linux). I made an 'other' entry in lilo.conf and run lilo. When I try to > > boot to plan9, I get an error that the disk is not a bootable. So what could > > be going wrong here? > > I suspect the problem is that Plan 9 doesn't know how to boot > from anything but the primary master. More precisely, I don't > know how that would work and so I'm not surprised that it > doesn't. > > It could be that we're not dealing with LILO properly > at all, although I think some people have gotten it working. I would > try it myself on my laptop but I'm afraid to wipe my MBR, > since I'm not 100% sure how to put the Windows 2000 one back. > > Anyone want to share LILO success stories? > > Russ >