You might be able to try different BIOS addressing modes for the disk. I can't remember if it was LBA I had luck with or not.
Grub can mount filesystems but not likely the plan 9 ones... so it has to use BIOS routines to get to the partition that you want to boot from and it looks to me that you're beyond the 1024 cylinder limit possibly (if that's the correct limit... I'm shooting from the hip a bit here). Anyway, I try to install Plan 9 to one of the 4 primary paritions and "keep it near the top" I don't know if you might be helped by a newer GRUB or GRUB2 even. Dave On 8/8/06, Jochen Menzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello, I've got Linux with the bootloader Grub installed. I installed Plan9 and tried to boot it from Grub, too. Without success so far. Here my configuration: /dev/hda1/win(70GB) /dev/hda2/boot (Linux Boot-partition)(100MB) /dev/hda3/ (Linux Root-partiotion as /dev/md0 software-raid)(80GB) /dev/hda4/swap (512MB) /dev/hdc1/swap (512MB) /dev/hdc2/ (/dev/md0 software-raid)(80GB) /dev/hdc3/Datadisc(60GB) /dev/hdc4/Plan9(10GB) Installation of Plan9 worked fine. Grub entry is chainloader (hd1,3)+1 for the Plan9-partition. When I try to boot Plan9 / Grub always gets the following error message: Error 18 Selected cylinder exceeds maximium supported by BIOS. Could anybody help me out here? I really want to have a closer look at the Plan 9 system without making changes to the rest. greetings J.
