From: Ian King <iking@killthewabbit.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] Newbie can't get real hardware to boot
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:07:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15EF249C-6516-455A-9D22-8A4456A20EC5@killthewabbit.org> (raw)
I've just started exploring Plan 9, and I've RTFM'ed but not figured
out why I can't boot the live CD on real hardware! I've tried it on
a number of PCs including laptops, desktops and servers, and it goes
nowhere. I've had no problem getting this same CD (either physical
disk or ISO image, depending) to boot in QEMU, on both x86 and Mac
PPC platforms. The platforms in question either do not have a floppy
or can't support both a floppy and CDROM simultaneously (swappable in
a laptop).
As I said, I've RTFM'ed and it seems I'm not getting far enough along
in the process to use that info. The machines in question all
recognize the CDROM, provide a line that says "PBS1...", followed by
the Plan 9 banner, and one more line: "ELCR: XXXX" where XXXX is a
four digit hex (appearing) number. Nothing else.
Where can I begin to troubleshoot this? Thanks for your help -- Ian
next reply other threads:[~2009-06-29 6:07 UTC|newest]
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2009-06-29 6:07 Ian King [this message]
2009-06-29 12:38 ` erik quanstrom
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