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Date: Tue,  1 Feb 2005 20:20:50 -0500
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] XP boot
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i think that if you edit the boot.ini file manually
while you are running xp (just add the lines that
pc/bootwinnt is trying to add) then it should work.

what i don't remember is whether the nt boot loader
can actually read boot.ini files on ntfs partitions.
i hope so.

russ


On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 02:11:11 +0100, boyd, rounin <boyd@insultant.net> wrote:
>     see /bin/pc/bootwinnt.  it works for xp.
>
> i see i have a /dev/sdC0/ntfs and there's this horrible XP
> thing called bootcfg to tweak it.
>
> /bin/pc/bootwinnt looks for /dev/sdC0/dos
>
> 'doze is such a wretched system.
> --
> MGRS 31U DQ 52572 12604
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