b.com

b.com

[G.David]

Hello again...

It seems the updates to b.com have caused some problems.  A floppy
created with disk/format with the new b.com boots, reads in b.com,
then says: Not a bootable disk or disk error  Press almost any key...

Booted from DOS, b.com works.  Using the old b.com with disk/format,
works.  It seems to be a problem between bb and the new b.com.

Any ideas?

b.com

[jmk]

the binary is too big to be booted striaght. this and other bugs are about
to be fixed. new disc images should be posted over the weekend or monday.

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Hello again...

It seems the updates to b.com have caused some problems.  A floppy
created with disk/format with the new b.com boots, reads in b.com,
then says: Not a bootable disk or disk error  Press almost any key...

Booted from DOS, b.com works.  Using the old b.com with disk/format,
works.  It seems to be a problem between bb and the new b.com.

Any ideas?

b.com

[Cort]

I'm using a 40 meg seagate drive, it's not terribly old, though (perhaps 3 
years).

I tried the b.com you suggested and it still failed, but with a different 
error.  The hardwait and hardintr messages were the same but the panic 
was "panic: hardintr 2".  

Any suggestions on this or should I give up and buy an AT&T machine? :)

> which hard disc have you got on your 386/486 machine?
> (ie, make, size, type)
> you can try ftp'ing b.com from /pub/plan9/b.com on ftp.cs.york.ac.uk
> to see if that is better (or worse!).  there was a problem with the handling
> of certain older drives, but i can't remember whether i fixed it in b.com
> or devhard.c in the pc kernel.

b.com

[forsyth]

which hard disc have you got on your 386/486 machine?
(ie, make, size, type)
you can try ftp'ing b.com from /pub/plan9/b.com on ftp.cs.york.ac.uk
to see if that is better (or worse!).  there was a problem with the handling
of certain older drives, but i can't remember whether i fixed it in b.com
or devhard.c in the pc kernel.