From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <15EF249C-6516-455A-9D22-8A4456A20EC5@killthewabbit.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> From: Ian King Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:07:37 -0700 Subject: [9fans] Newbie can't get real hardware to boot Topicbox-Message-UUID: 10a060ca-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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