From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:19:15 +0800 From: "Hongzheng Wang" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] An unsuccessful attempt to install on Thinkpad T43 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5a5ce83e-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hi, But even for the same install cd and partition scheme, the installation is success for the first time ( execpt that some files are missing when system is in use) and could not be booted at all for the second time. This is really strange :( On Feb 19, 2008 4:52 PM, Alexander Sychev wrote: > Hello! > On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:55:14 +0300, Hongzheng Wang > wrote: > > > For boot method, since I have both Linux and XP on my laptop already, > > I choose grub as multiple boot manager. That is, I select `plan9' as > > boot method when I am asked and don't install boot instructions into > > MBR. And configure grub to use `chainloader +1' to boot Plan9. > > > > AFAIK, Plan9 needs a first free partition for installation. I use Plan9 on > ThinkPad T40 installed in the first partition and boot it with LILO via > 'chain' rule. > > > -- > Best regards, > santucco > -- HZ