* erik quanstrom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070702 17:21]: > why not make your linux swap partition temporarly into a dos partition. > then install plan 9 where you had the dos partition. then teach grub > to boot plan 9 and you can have your linux swap back.
just tried it and this scenario doesn't work either. Originaly I made partitions like this: primary 1: dos containing files form plan 9 install floppy FREE SPACE primary 3: small linux (/boot) primary 4: big linux (/) Boot from usb-cdrom, supplied it with sdC0!dos!9pcflop.gz and began installation. Critical is the [partdisk] stage. The partitioning software asks about which disk to use, I answered sdC0, than it finds free space and makes it a plan9 partition. I want to write it and quit. But after "w" I got an error. "linux1: i/o error" So I tried "q" and the software quited and let me continue. So I went to further partitioning newly created plan9 partition. So far so good. Again I went through all the process until the question about booting. So I instructed the software to use MBR. But I got failure again. Thus I tried "stop" option and it made the installer somehow continue but wanted to save the state of affairs onto floppy. Which of course failed since I do not have any floppy. Finaly I had to reboot. (ctrl-alt-del). After reboot, I could get to boot plan9 up to the point where it asks about kernel. At the same time it shows these bootable devices: fd0, sdC0!dos, sdC0!9dos. So I feed it with: sdC0!9dos!9pcf Now the kernel starts loading and I can proceed as far as to user[none]: Here I supply "glenda" and get: user[none]: glenda boot: can't connect to file server: '/boot/bzroot' does not exist panic: boot process died: unknown panic: boot process died: unknown dumpstack disabled cpu0: exiting And the system is dead. At this point, I doubt something will change if I wipe the whole disk, that is remove those linux partitions. Something else is wrong here I suppose. Especially, I can't figure why I get those linux1 i/o errors when trying to make partitions with plan9 installer. Linux fdisk never failed with my hdd. Thus hw failure is unlikely. So, after all this fuss, maybe it is time to also try network install :))) But I could not find any howto or description how to do it. Best regards Michal
