From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 18:46:40 -0500 From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Debugging 9load problem In-Reply-To: <436FE547.8060309@ajft.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <436FE547.8060309@ajft.org> Topicbox-Message-UUID: a886c4e2-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > For some time I've had to use an ancient version of 9load, since any > time I tried to place a more modern copy into my 9fat partition the > machine refused to boot. I *think* that its because the plan9 partition > is 15G into the disk, but have no idea how to go about fixing things. So if you run an ancient version of 9load in your 9fat then you can boot from 9fat, but if you replace it with a newer one then you can't? How old is the 'ancient' 9load? How big is it? Can you post your bootsect.p9 somewhere on the web? Russ