From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 15:19:00 -0400 From: Bill Hogan bhogan@bedlam.rahul.net Subject: installing plan9 demo on a PC Topicbox-Message-UUID: 163bb410-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19950814191900.l25IaN4eNZV2kGlMmxtpWcg8G700D6qP7W3Pr6iR0Zk@z> "j" == jmk 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