On 3/27/06, Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > But when I reached the bootsetup part, I was a little confused to see
> > that I had only the choice between a floppy boot sidk (no floppy
> > drives), and updating a win* bootloader (no win*).
> > In addition to that, my hard drive on this machine is not sdC-, but
> > sdC1, I can't do anything about it, not allowed to get my hands on the
> > hardware or software configuration.
>
> Presumably you told grub to swap the bios drive letters.
> It's not clear to me how well that works for booting
> Plan 9.  I've never tried it.  It's possible that the boot
> sector doesn't pay attention to the remapping, so it
> went looking for 9load on your hda, not hdb.


I think I get what you mean, but why would it swap the drive letters ?
I mean if grub already found the right partition and started it, why
would it then mess up while calling 9load ?

That seems odd.
I'll keep looking.


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Laurent Malvert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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