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. -- Laurent Malvert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
