erik did all the work and now Plan 9 boots on this machine thanks erik
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:46 PM, erik quanstrom<[email protected]> wrote: > since fgb is so cool, he let me debug on his back. > we found a couple of non-obvious problems on an > ich9r laptop with a segate momentus drive. > > if you're dual-booting plan 9 with vista, it's a good idea to avoid > using a fat16 partition because vista will create a type 0xe > (fat16lba) partition, which the current 9load won't recognize. > contrib/9load-e820 will recognize that partition type. > > also the momentus hard drive didn't send or the ich9r > didn't bother receiving the setdevicebits fis and 9load > didn't have a large enough stick to wack some sense into 'em. > now the original problem may still be my fault, but at least > we can get the drive back to reality. > > in summary, > 9load-e820: now with extra FAT and larger stick! > > - erik > > -- Federico G. Benavento
