>> And somebody ought to make plan9 bootable from something other than primary >> partition (The same problem I have with Solaris 10. I could use those 70 GB >> of hdd in my school computer, but there are not enough primary partition >> numbers left for it's disklabel...) > > I have not yet attempted booting Plan9 from an 'extended' partition, but have > > been able to use block-mode loaders to start it from a 'primary' partition > (slice) on a 200 GB HDD that was otherwise out of the reach of the BIOS (3 ol > der > MB tested, some with 1999 vintage BIOS). > > It should be equally possible to start Plan9 from a non-primary partition - > perhaps the real issue is not 'reaching' it, but whether it can understand > where it is and finish the boot?
It can. I run it from an extended partition. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282
