Re: [9fans] hehe bad to worse

Re: [9fans] hehe bad to worse

[Russ Cox]

did you install in a partition located
more than 8GB into the disk?

Re[2]: [9fans] hehe bad to worse

[Matt H]

Hello Russ,

Wednesday, May 09, 2001, 3:35:45 PM, you wrote:

RC> did you install in a partition located
RC> more than 8GB into the disk?

nope, it's a 20Gb ide and plan9 has it all, auto partitioned

9fat 0- 20482            (10Mb)
fs 20482 - 39781066      (18.95Mb)
nvram 39781066 - 39781067 (521 B)
swap 39781067 - 39857202  (37.17Mb)

It worked just fine with the same setup for Aug2000 CD Distribution -
which I'm currently installing again to see if the hard disk has
broken in the meantime 8)


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 Matt                            mailto:matt@proweb.co.uk

[9fans] hehe bad to worse

[matt]

Hullo 9fans,

  So I abandoned my update plan and thought ah well, I'll just
  download the latest version and start again, I've not really done
  anything yet so I won't lose much.

  It all goes swimmingly until I reboot the fresh install :

  MBR...PBS...Bad format or I/O error
  Press almost any key to reboot...

  If I send £100 to Boyd maybe he'll jump on Eurostar and come shoot
  me and put me out of my misery.

  Anyone got a better idea?
  

-- 
 If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright

 matt                          mailto:matt@proweb.co.uk

Re: [9fans] hehe bad to worse

[Boyd Roberts]

>   If I send £100 to Boyd maybe he'll jump on Eurostar and come shoot
>   me and put me out of my misery.

the eurostar is a deathtrap.

my contract states i cannot work for anybody else (ie. no payment).

i have a slight firefight here to deal with first.

£100?  nope.  £1000/day.

Re: [9fans] hehe bad to worse

[Douglas A. Gwyn]

matt wrote:
>   It all goes swimmingly until I reboot the fresh install :
>   MBR...PBS...Bad format or I/O error
>   Press almost any key to reboot...

I've seen that more times than I care to recall;
in my case it has always been associated with installing
any form of Plan 9 boot *other* than partition boot.
Of course, partition boot will lose your other OS
boot, but since I'm using System Commander I can fix
that by booting a rescue floppy and re-initing SC.