[9fans] Plan 9 floppy boot local hdd install onto IBM ThinkPad X30

[9fans] Plan 9 floppy boot local hdd install onto IBM ThinkPad X30

[Yoshi Rokuko]

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Hey folks,

too bad that one can't post to comp.os.plan9 - I did this and now it's
gone and I have to retype this ...
... so now a little shorter ;-)

My plan is to install Plan 9 onto my ThinkPad X30 from a primary FAT32
partition by booting from an external (not usb) floppy drive.

"If you wish to install from local media, you need a FAT file system or
[...]" [1].

He is booting from the floppy - this is how far I got:

PBS1...Plan 9 from Bell Labs
ELCR: 0800
apm ax=f000 cx=f000 dx=40 di=ffff ebx=5976 esi=-1
initialprobe, to find plan9.ini...using fd0!dos!plan0.ini
.

Then there is this Startup Menu with default 1 timeout 10s I took this
ans then:

pcirouting: 8086/248A at pin 1 irq 11
#Y0: Ricoh 476 PCI/Cardbus bridge, 50000000 intl 11
#Y1: Ricoh 476 PCI/Cardbus bridge, 50100000 intl 11
dev A0 port 1F0 config 045A capabilities 2F00 mwdma 0007 udma 203F
LLBA sectors 78242976
Unknown boot device: sdD0!cdboot!9pccd.gz
Bootdevices: fd0
boot from:

I tried this:

boot from: fd0!9pccd.gz
booting fd0!9pccd.gz
error walking to 9pccd.gz
boot from:

... well I don't know further (I'm really new to Plan 9)
Any Help much appreciated :-)

regards, y0shi


[1] http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Installation_instructions

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Re: [9fans] Plan 9 floppy boot local hdd install onto IBM ThinkPad X30

[erik quanstrom]

> I tried this:
>
> boot from: fd0!9pccd.gz
> booting fd0!9pccd.gz
> error walking to 9pccd.gz
> boot from:
>
> ... well I don't know further (I'm really new to Plan 9)
> Any Help much appreciated :-)

the floppy kernel is 9pcflop.gz so the answer to the boot
from question is:

fd0!9pcflop.gz

- erik

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 floppy boot local hdd install onto IBM ThinkPad X30

[Yoshi Rokuko]

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Am Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:50:10 -0400
schrieb erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>:

> > I tried this:
> > 
> > boot from: fd0!9pccd.gz
> > booting fd0!9pccd.gz
> > error walking to 9pccd.gz
> > boot from:
> > 
> > ... well I don't know further (I'm really new to Plan 9)
> > Any Help much appreciated :-)
> 
> the floppy kernel is 9pcflop.gz so the answer to the boot
> from question is:
> 
> fd0!9pcflop.gz
> 
> - erik

Thank you, I was now able to try this out and it worked perfectly.

The kernel seemed to be distracted by my PCMCIA Atheros wificard
(looked like a freeze right after detecting RAM etc.), but booted fine
without that card.

So now I have my first Plan 9 to play with - Thank you again.

Regards, y0shi

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