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Date: Fri,  4 Nov 2005 23:39:56 +0400
From: Sergey Zhilkin <szhilkin@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] cdrom drive problems
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Just try the floppy disk from plan9.bell-labs.com<http://plan9.bell-labs.co=
m>:)

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
> --
> http://nuwen.net/~digi/cluster
> Jealousy is all the fun you think they have.
>

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Just try the floppy disk from <a href=3D"http://plan9.bell-labs.com">plan9.=
bell-labs.com</a> :) <br><br><div><span class=3D"gmail_quote">On 11/4/05, <=
b class=3D"gmail_sendername">John Floren</b> &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:jfloren@=
moseslake-wa.com">
jfloren@moseslake-wa.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class=3D"gmail_qu=
ote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0p=
t 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello everyone.<br>I've got an old Pentium mac=
hine here, and I'm trying to install Plan 9
<br>on it.&nbsp;&nbsp;It has a hard drive at primary master and a cdrom dri=
ve at<br>secondary master.&nbsp;&nbsp;When I put in the boot cd (downloaded=
 from the Bell<br>Labs website) and try to boot, I can get as far as a boot=
 prompt saying<br>
boot devices: fd0<br>boot from:<br><br>After that, no dice.&nbsp;&nbsp;I've=
 tried the old reliable<br>&quot;sdD0!cdboot!9pcflop.gz&quot;, but I get an=
 error saying that there is no<br>cdboot partition on the disk.&nbsp;&nbsp;=
This same disk loads fine in qemu, so it
<br>is not a burn problem.&nbsp;&nbsp;Could it be that my IDE controller is=
 simply not<br>supported?&nbsp;&nbsp;Would using the <a href=3D"http://9gri=
d.de">9grid.de</a> iso image help?<br>Thanks<br><br>John Floren<br>--<br><a=
 href=3D"http://nuwen.net/~digi/cluster">
http://nuwen.net/~digi/cluster</a><br>Jealousy is all the fun you think the=
y have.<br></blockquote></div><br>

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