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From: Sascha Silbe <sascha-news-NOSPAM@silbe.org>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Booting Plan9 after installation
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 16:47:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrna4610t.rbs.sascha-news-NOSPAM@cube.sascha.silbe.org> (raw)

Hi!

I finally managed to install Plan9 (bought a new VGA card that works with
Plan9). When asked how to boot, I chose "plan9", because there is neither WinNT
nor Win95 installed (only Linux and Hurd) and I want it to boot directly from
harddisk, so floppy was no choice, either.
Now I am having trouble getting it to boot using grub. I assumed that it would
work like a DOS bootloader (and that's how I interpret the 9load manpage) and
tried the following commands within grub:

rootnoverify (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1

These just lead to the following error message:

PBS...Bad format or I/O error
Press almost any key to reboot...

It seems grub has loaded and started the "disk partition PBS" successfully,
but the PBS has failed to load 9load.

Any suggestions what I am doing wrong?

How do I create a boot floppy without completely reinstalling the system?

CU/Lnx Sascha

Registered Linux User #77587 (http://counter.li.org/)


             reply	other threads:[~2002-01-14 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-14 16:47 Sascha Silbe [this message]
2002-01-14 17:08 Russ Cox
2002-01-15 12:22 ` Sascha Silbe
2002-02-07  9:55   ` Joel Salomon
2002-02-08 16:34     ` John Packer
2002-02-07 13:50 Russ Cox
2002-02-07 14:30 nigel
2002-02-07 14:52 Richard Miller
2002-02-07 17:31 Russ Cox
2002-02-11  9:53 ` Joel Salomon
2002-02-11 10:06 Fco.J.Ballesteros

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