Hello, I have some trouble installing plan9 on IBM Thinkpad X40.
Since I do not have any docking station or port replicator or whatever enhancements IBM sells, I tried to install only using USB-CDROM and USB-FLOPPY. Beforehand, I have already linux installed on that machine. That is, only linux (no windows). So far I succeeded to install plan9 in such a way, that I am able to boot from cd and than proceed to the plan9 system on the hdd. Now I would like to make plan9 bootable without any usb-cdrom. My idea is to use grub with rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 boot But unfortunately, this does not work. (the loader asked for floppy - which I cannot supply, since I do not have any floppy drive). So I booted from usb-cd, moved to plan9 system on the disk nad issued: %disk/format -b /386/pbslba /dev/sdC0/9fat which responded with: % 0 bytes used Now if I reboot and supply manualy above stated commands to grub, I get this: PBS2...Bad format or I/O error Press a key to reboot... I am new to plan9 but I guess something analogical to "grub-install" is perhaps needet from inside of plan9 system, right? I have searched through tha 9fans archives and also I have ask at irc channel, but without any succes. Can anyone help me to sort this out? :) Thank you in advance. One other way would be to install everything from screatch, if only that would be possible using just usb-key. Unfortunately, I could not find any info on plan9 installations from usb-key. Does it mean this way is not supported? Best regards Michal
