> While searching for info on how to get this to work with the grub > bootloader, I found this on a forum: > > Cd anyone comment on this or, even better, suggest a way to avoid this > happening if true? I am thinking of installing onto a Dell PIII laptop > with 6 other OSs currently on it. I wanted to put Plan 9 on the final > primary partition on the drive and continue to use Grub as a bootloader.
I can't speak authoritatively, but I can relate how I installed it on mine using grub. The short answer is that I selected the option that installs the boot loader in the partition's boot block, rather than the disk's MBR. Then I configured grub to act much like you do for Windows. The actual grub entry I have looks like: title=Plan9 rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 Now having said that, I must also say that I seem to always end up doing something wrong along the way. Almost every time I do an install, I end up having to manually mess with the DOS partition where the kernel and plan9.ini are kept. But I've been able to successfully install it several times without killing the other OSs on the machine. One caveat: It's been a while since I last did this, so my memory of details may be a bit fuzzy. BLS
