[9fans] Plan9 boot after install problem..

[9fans] Plan9 boot after install problem..

[Ish]

Hello,

Trying to get back to Plan9 (CD licensed in 1994).

I installed Plan9 on a PC from cd-rom. The disk has (hd0) has
a 100Mb DOS partition, 1500Mb available for installation. Using
the new disk-set (from ftp site), I was able to install the CD
contents on disk (saw one error for /n/kfs/sys/src/alef/?? and
one for /n/kfs/??/9pcdisk). Did opt for making the installed
file system default and rebooted. It prompts for boot device:
e!0 hd!0 h!0, I tried hd!0 and see the message

fs..time..init: /386/init file does not exist
....
.... exiting

The entry in c:>\plan9\plan9.ini for bootfile is still
bootfile=hd!0:/plan9.ini

Will a reinstall take care of the problem?

- ishwar

[9fans] Plan9 boot after install problem..

[presotto]

By saying hd!0, you loaded a kernel from the DOS partition.  This is
perfectly reasonable.  However when it prompted for where the root
file system was from you probably hit newline.  The default in
that case is 'local!#H/hd0disk', i.e. the start of the disk, usually the
dos partition.  You'll be able to tell because it prints out the
default in the prompt.

If you load a kernel from the DOS partition, you'ld need to
override the default with the location of the plan 9 file system
you just installed, i.e., 'local!#H/hd0fs' or simply 'l'.

Alternately, you could boot a kernel from the plan 9 boot partition,
type 'h!0!boot'.  Then the default file system will indeed be /dev/hd0fs,
i.e., the file system you just installed.

Your plan9.ini entry is a bit odd too.  It should be:

	bootfile=h!0!boot

if you want to boot from the plan 9 kernel partition.