From: "Laurent Malvert" <laurent.malvert@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Grub Boot Problem
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:30:38 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a186e7650603272130jbb807dbuee232fd661ac146e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <296c27b6baddcbc27cde0ce5fc02af56@swtch.com>
On 3/27/06, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Presumably you told grub to swap the bios drive letters.
> It's not clear to me how well that works for booting
> Plan 9. I've never tried it. It's possible that the boot
> sector doesn't pay attention to the remapping, so it
> went looking for 9load on your hda, not hdb.
I think I get what you mean, but why would it swap the drive letters ?
I mean if grub already found the right partition and started it, why
would it then mess up while calling 9load ?
That seems odd.
I'll keep looking.
--
Laurent Malvert [laurent.malvert@gmail.com]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-28 5:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-27 9:23 Laurent Malvert
2006-03-27 12:41 ` Russ Cox
2006-03-27 13:04 ` David.Eckhardt, Dave Eckhardt
2006-03-27 13:19 ` Russ Cox
2006-03-28 5:35 ` Laurent Malvert
2006-03-28 6:27 ` Laurent Malvert
2006-03-28 7:03 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-28 7:48 ` Laurent Malvert
2006-03-28 5:30 ` Laurent Malvert [this message]
2006-03-28 16:19 ` Russ Cox
2006-03-28 16:46 ` matt
2006-03-28 19:56 ` David Leimbach
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