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From: Will Rose cwr@cra...
Subject: Plan9 & OS/2 Boot Manager
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 13:46:58 -0400

Michael C. Montero (root@loc...) wrote:
: I am trying to setup Plan9 on my machine which has OS/2 Boot Manager.  I 
: currently have a DOS parition and a Linux partition.  I followed the 
: steps outlined in the documentation for setting up the PC distribution 
: (20 megs) of Plan9.  However, for some reason the Disk1 is setting itself 
: up on the floppy instead of on the partition I left available for Plan9.  

I installed on an OS/2 machine and hit the same problem.  There can be
only one partition (BootManager is a partition) on the drive on which
you install Plan 9.  I had MSDOS and Bootmanager on the same disk,
the first, and got the results you describe.  Once I removed Bootmanager
the install went smoothly.  Since this was a test to see if my hardware
was compatible, I just removed Plan 9 after a day and didn't start
chasing down possible solutions for continuing use.

Will
cwr@cra...