From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 as Unix client? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-eddklbrkjilufbisrjpmjdyduz" Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:49:06 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: f9ccb42a-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-eddklbrkjilufbisrjpmjdyduz Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I run mine off of ntfs. I just booted 2000, copied a:\bootsect.p9 to c:\bootsect.p9 and booting works. --upas-eddklbrkjilufbisrjpmjdyduz Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from plan9.cs.bell-labs.com ([135.104.9.2]) by plan9; Mon Sep 30 17:41:14 EDT 2002 Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by plan9; Mon Sep 30 17:41:13 EDT 2002 Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.23.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 0B11D19A9F; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 17:40:58 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: from pd5mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 918A019A94 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 17:39:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pd3mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr2so-ser.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.178]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H39009GWTHOUY@l-daemon> for 9fans@cse.psu.edu; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:39:24 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml5so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml5so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.149]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H3900376THOBJ@l-daemon> for 9fans@cse.psu.edu; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:39:24 -0600 (MDT) Received: from HPN5415 (h24-83-1-240.vc.shawcable.net [24.83.1.240]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with SMTP id <0H39002QFTHN1T@l-daemon> for 9fans@cse.psu.edu; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:39:24 -0600 (MDT) From: "John E. Barham" Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 as Unix client? To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Message-id: <013201c268c9$b8491e30$540da8c0@HPN5415> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal References: <55ac8209e87834eef705b065ab4cc697@plan9.bell-labs.com> Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:38:30 -0700 > 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 --upas-eddklbrkjilufbisrjpmjdyduz--