> I solved this by deleting everything for the fat partition (which was a
> fat16lba, not a 9fat) and then copy the files in the right order all this
> done in vista
> 
> it worked

i believe io.sys in dos must be contiguous, too.
http://www.csulb.edu/~murdock/format.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IO.SYS
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/66530/en-us

i had always wondered why plan9.ini was the way
it is.  i had not realized that it is compatable with config.sys
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONFIG.SYS

does anyone know the reason for this?

- erik

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