From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Nigel Horne To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu References: <20010922160202.E808419A3C@mail.cse.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010922160202.E808419A3C@mail.cse.psu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01092313080100.01534@smsltd.demon.co.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [9fans] Boot floppy fails Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 13:08:01 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: f0bb7796-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I've got my hands on an old HP machine. When I plug in the plan 9 boot floppy on that machine it correctly gives me the "boot from" prompt. I wonder, does that point to plan 9 not supporting more modern hardware since as I reported it fails on my newer (year old) machine. -Nigel -- Nigel Horne. Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Typesetter. Owner of the brass band group of the Internet. ICQ#20252325 njh@bandsman.co.uk http://www.bandsman.co.uk/music.htm