From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Sascha Silbe Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [9fans] Booting Plan9 after installation Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 16:47:02 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3dc823fe-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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/)