[9fans] Grub Boot Problem

["Laurent Malvert" <laurent.malvert@gmail.com>]

Hi everybody,

I am a total newbie with Plan9 and I wanted to five it a try for a long time.
I decided to install it this week, and the installation went
surprisingly good, I was expecting something much less user-friendly
(well...)

But when I reached the bootsetup part, I was a little confused to see
that I had only the choice between a floppy boot sidk (no floppy
drives), and updating a win* bootloader (no win*).
In addition to that, my hard drive on this machine is not sdC-, but
sdC1, I can't do anything about it, not allowed to get my hands on the
hardware or software configuration.

But I figured it would be alright as I had a Ubuntu Linux on the same
disk, so I stepped the bootsetp part and rebooted the system.
I then modified my grub config with the following entry:

title     Plan9
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
chainloader +1
makeactive
boot


here's what fdisk is giving me:
lo@MALVERTLAB:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/hdb

Disk /dev/hdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1               1         365     2931831   83  Linux
/dev/hdb2             366        5594    42001942+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb3   *        5595        7500    15309945   39  Plan 9
/dev/hdb5             366        1459     8787523+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb6            1460        3526    16603146   83  Linux
/dev/hdb7            3527        3891     2931831   83  Linux
/dev/hdb8            3892        4256     2931831   83  Linux
/dev/hdb9            4257        5107     6835626   83  Linux
/dev/hdb10           5108        5472     2931831   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hdb11           5473        5594      979933+  83  Linux


When I booted again and asked grub to boot on the 'Plan9' option, it
found the partition correctly, and displayed something much like:

PBS...I/O Error
Press any key to reboot.

Obviously there is something wront, could someone give me a hand with this ?


thanks in advance.

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Laurent Malvert [laurent.malvert@gmail.com]