From: Digby Tarvin <digbyt@acm.org>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] A few installation queries...
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 16:37:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200110011537.QAA22850@cthulhu.dircon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00ab01c14a67$e8cf9650$a2b9c6d4@SOMA> from Boyd Roberts at "Oct 1, 2001 12:57:48 pm"
> > apm ax=f000 cx=f000 dx=fdfa di=0 ebx=806c esi=-6c2dfc17
> > using fd0!dos!plan9.ini
> > dev A0 port 1F0 config 0040 capabilities 2F00 mwdma 0007 udma 203F
> > no such FAT partition fd0!dos
> > Boot devices: fd0 fd1 sdC0
>
> weird, sounds like you're in floppy/disk hell. read:
>
> http://home.fr.inter.net/boyd/plan9/usbflop.html
>
> maybe i should add the plan9.ini too.
Thanks, I'll have a look.
> > init: starting /bin/rc
> > ndb/dns: can't read my ip address
> > disk/fdisk: did not find master boot record
> > i8042: fe returned to the ea command
> >
> > and the system hangs...
>
> i have some vague recollection that if you screw up the boot/partition
> stuff during the install all sorts of horrible things happen.
>
I'll give the install another try. I'm not sure what I could have
mucked up. I just used the plan9 fdisk utility to delete the
second partition and replace it with a plan9 partition, and
then accepted all the defaults for formatting it....
> > If I log on as user 'none', there is no rio but I sucessfully get a shell
> > prompt, so I assume there is some problem with the initialization of the
> > display adapter. I compared the 'vgadb' on the hard disk and the
> > updated install disk (where the graphics seemed to work)
> > and they were identical...
>
> yes, this is possible. my TFT LCD is XGAx16 (iirc) and that does
> not work. setting it to be XGAx8 works fine.
>
I found another video adapter that appears in vgadb, and get exactly
the same symptoms. So I guess it is not the video card after all.
Regards,
DigbyT
--
Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt@acm.org
http://www.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-01 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-30 13:11 [9fans] on the topic of viruses rob pike
2001-10-01 9:46 ` Digby Tarvin
2001-10-01 9:51 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-01 10:32 ` [9fans] A few installation queries Digby Tarvin
2001-10-01 10:57 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-01 15:37 ` Digby Tarvin [this message]
2001-10-08 9:36 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-08 10:48 ` Boyd Roberts
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