From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 13:35:19 -0400
From: Borja Marcos borjam@we.lc.ehu.es
Subject: Cannot boot Plan 9 in my motherboard
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	Hello,

	After buying a CDROM drive and a SCSI hard disk,
I have tried to install Plan 9 in my machine. I had installed it
putting the disk in a machine I borrowed from a friend without
trouble. (Well, actually I hadn't the CDROM reader yet,
so the disk has only the three-diskette set installed).

	Today I have tried to boot the disk in my machine
(a 386/25 with 387, 8 MB of RAM and OPTI chipset)
without success. The motherboard is rather old (the BIOS is from 1990).

	The SCSI adapter is a Adaptec 1540CF and the disk is a Quantum 
Trailblazer (850 MB)

	The system has crashed when it prompts "root from:.... #w0/..."
At that point the keyboard didn't respond. Does it stil use the BIOS in
that stage to read the disk (it could be a problem of too many cylinders)
or may it is another kind of compatibility problem?

	Ah, the system didn't give any panic message; simply died
silently.

	If I cannot make it work I will buy another motherboard...


	Thanks in advance,



	Borja Marcos.



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