From: presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 as Unix client?
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:49:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e1def28439056f8db1a94e307d807f58@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
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I run mine off of ntfs. I just booted 2000, copied a:\bootsect.p9 to c:\bootsect.p9
and booting works.
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From: "John E. Barham" <jbarham@jbarham.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 as Unix client?
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:38:30 -0700
Message-ID: <013201c268c9$b8491e30$540da8c0@HPN5415>
> The /n/a:/bootsect.p9 trick doesn't work if the boot file system
> isn't FAT. Even if Plan 9 read NTFS, the NT boot loader won't use it.
Which is my situation since my XP install is on NTFS.
> Try Smart BootManager (http://btmgr.sf.net), mentioned on the
> list a few weeks ago.
I installed it to a floppy and it works like a charm. Thanks!
> Russ
John
next reply other threads:[~2002-09-30 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-30 23:49 presotto [this message]
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2002-10-01 6:22 nigel
2002-10-01 2:09 Russ Cox
2002-09-30 23:57 presotto
2002-09-30 22:40 Russ Cox
2002-09-30 23:26 ` andrey mirtchovski
2002-09-30 18:52 nigel
2002-09-30 18:04 Russ Cox
2002-09-30 21:38 ` John E. Barham
2002-09-30 12:32 presotto
2002-09-30 8:23 nigel
2002-09-30 6:46 nigel
2002-09-30 7:21 ` Munish Chopra
2002-09-30 8:25 ` John E. Barham
2002-09-30 6:23 John E. Barham
2002-09-30 6:30 ` andrey mirtchovski
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