Does anyone know how to set up LILO to boot another hard disk with Plan 9 installed on it? I'm Installing it on the other hard drive, and then hooking it up as a slave and setting up LILO to give me an option to boot into Plan 9 on that drive. Anyone have any ideas?

It's quite simple actually. Lets assume that your first drive is /dev/hda1 and second drive with Plan 9 is /dev/hdb1. Another assumption is you've got Linux+Lilo installed on the either drive with lilo being set to boot from the first drive.

In your /etc/ folder you'll find a file called lilo.conf. It looks somewhat like this.



This configuration is set to boot DOS from first partition of your drive and Linux from a second partition. The first line here, boot = /dev/hda tells lilo to install itself on the MBR of the first drive and boot using it. Assuming you've got Windows and Linux on the first one, and Plan 9 on the second, your config file should look like this:


Once you've made these changes to lilo.conf, save and quit. Now you've to run lilo once to read the config changes. It resides in /sbin/lilo - so simply run,


The * beside WinXP tells you that it is the default boot OS.

To make Plan 9 your default OS, you should type:


That should do it for you....

Nice tutorial, miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG ! I learned a lot with it !
Just a simple comment, on some systems like mine, it's not /sbin/lilo, it's /etc/lilo.