From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 18:38:42 -0400
From: Borja Marcos borjam@we.lc.ehu.es
Subject: Cannot boot Plan 9 in my motherboard
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> 
> yes, try it with a boot floppy. i'm surprised that if b.com manages to load the kernel
> from the scsi disc that the kernel won't run. also ensure there's no shadow bios
> enabled.

	The BIOS shadow was disabled as I use the motherboard with SCO
Unix.

	I have been trying another motherboard and have seen strange effects.
After installing the full CDROM system and booting it, I have tried to
enlarge the shell window it creates when you boot as "tor" but the system
simply hasn't done it. It happened in fact when I was trying the
four-diskette set vefore receiving the CDROM, but I thought it was a 
memory problem, as the "swap" command isn't present in the diskettes.
After happening that, I have executed the swap comand giving /dev/sd0swap
as the argument, but the system continued to fail to enlarge the window.

	Starting other programs such as mothra gave "Not enough bitmap
memory..." (more or less, I haven't written down the messages, sorry).
If I opened another shell window, the menu for the button three appeared
garbled with the background.

	Do you think it's an incompatibility with the motherboard? Or is
it just a small swap partition? ( I have the default 10 MB partition).

	Is there an easy way of setting up a bigger swap partition before
installing the CDROM? I have set up manually a partition table with a
40 MB swap partition, but the CDROM installation has overwritten it.

	Thank you very much, 




	Borja.

> 
> --jim
> 


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