Re: [9fans] installation on SATYA disk failed

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> This is what I get:
>
> PBS1...
> Plan 9 from Bell Labs
> ELCR:CCL8
> pcirouting: South bridge 8086, 2810 not found
> islba: drive 0x80 extensions version 48.0 cx 0x5
> exgetsize: drive 0x80 info flags 0x0
> bios0: drive 0x80: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes, type 3
> reading drive 0x80 offset 0 into seg: off 0x6000000...biosdiskcall: int 13 op 042 drive 0x80 failed, ah error code 0x80

i don't see those debugging statements on sources,
so clearly i could be misreading this.  but assuming
that i'm not confused about what that says,
wouldn't that segment:off be a problem?
as far as i know, 9load only maps 8mb.

> So, I added a second (slave) HD on IDE0, with a small FAT partition, etc., and booted:
> sdB0!dos!9pcflop.gz
> and voila, installer runs, but only up to the '[partdisk]: no disk devices were found on your system. The installation process cannot continue.'

/sys/src/9/pcflop has sdiahci commented out.  i would
think at this point we could trade sdmylex and sd53c8xx
for sdiahci.  (sadly, it's hard to find 5v pci slots anymore.)
but since you're not on a floppy, you can compile a
kernel with them all in.  you don't need to fit in 1.44mb.

- erik