installing plan9 demo on a PC

[Bill Hogan bhogan@bedlam.rahul.net]

"j" == jmk  <jmk@plan9.att.com> writes:

  j> don't see anything obviously wrong with this 

	(why doesn't sd!1 show up as a boot device?). 

  j> to get 'error walking to 9dos' one of the elements in the
  j> path has to show up either as a non-directory or could not be found in the
  j> directory scan (i.e. 'plan9' isn't being found in c:). this is surprising
  j> because the files were obviously put there by plan9 during the first part
  j> of the installation.

  j> check the disc isn't corrupt.

  j> copy the plan9.ini and 9dos files to the root of c: and then try
  j> plan9\b sd!0!9dos

  j> it's a mystery.
     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Ok, I will take another look.

    I also thought it was peculiar that sd!1 was not picked up as a
boot device but then I have no idea what criterion is being applied nor
by whom.

    For that matter, I don't have a clear idea of what plan9/B
*exactly* what `B' is trying to do.

    Also, just now I noticed something about my plan9.init that
strikes me as suspicious, namely, the `rootdir' specification.
                                                                 
  j> bedlam:[*root*]/C/plan9 # cat plan9.ini
  j> ----------------------------------------
  j> mouseport=0
  j> monitor=vga
  j> vgasize=640x480x1
  j> scsi0=type=aha1542 port=0x330
  j> console=cga
  j> bootfile=sd!0!/plan9/9dos
  j> rootdir=/plan9 <-----------------------------sd!0!/plan9 ???
  j> -----------------------------------------


    Thank you for taking the time to reply to my question.

    Cheers!

     Bill

  j> scsi devices:
  j> -----------------
  j> scsi0 = dos C: drive
  j> scsi1 = dos D: drive
  j> scsi2 = dos E:
  j> scsi3 = dos F:
  j> scsi4 = dos H: (Texel cdrom)

  j> boot devices:
  j> -----------------
  j> fd!1
  j> sd!0
         <---------------------- why not sd!1 ?
  j> sd!2
  j> sd!3