Just try the floppy disk from plan9.bell-labs.com<http://plan9.bell-labs.com>:)

On 11/4/05, John Floren <jfloren@moseslake-wa.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone.
> I've got an old Pentium machine here, and I'm trying to install Plan 9
> on it. It has a hard drive at primary master and a cdrom drive at
> secondary master. When I put in the boot cd (downloaded from the Bell
> Labs website) and try to boot, I can get as far as a boot prompt saying
> boot devices: fd0
> boot from:
>
> After that, no dice. I've tried the old reliable
> "sdD0!cdboot!9pcflop.gz", but I get an error saying that there is no
> cdboot partition on the disk. This same disk loads fine in qemu, so it
> is not a burn problem. Could it be that my IDE controller is simply not
> supported? Would using the 9grid.de <http://9grid.de> iso image help?
> Thanks
>
> John Floren
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