From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:52:43 +0300
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
From: Alexander Sychev <santucco@gmail.com>
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Hello!
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:55:14 +0300, Hongzheng Wang <wanghz@gmail.com>
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.


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Best regards,
   santucco