From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200312011628.hB1GSUI5019961@fine1008.math.Princeton.EDU> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 boot error In-reply-to: References: From: John Stalker Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 11:28:30 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 998f59a8-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I am not really competent to diagnose this, but I may be able to suggest a workaround. If the plan9 compiler depends on having 586 instructions then you are out of luck. Other people will be able to answer that. If not, then there is a very ugly workaround. You can do the install under emulation (bochs) to a disk image and then write the image to your hard disk. If you are running bochs on a 486 this will take forever. If you have a fast machine running some form of unix you can do it there and then NFS mount the directory containing the resulting disk image. I should say that I once started to do this and then lost patience and interest. The bit about writing a disk image directly to my hard disk also frightened me. Good luck. > Hi, > > I'm installing Plan9 on a typical old 486. When it boots I get this. > PBS... > ELCR: 0000 > panic: floopyinitdev > > I have made a few different boot disks on two different computers so I'm > ruling out its a bad disk. > > I also tested the diskette drive and booted other boot disks and it seems to > be working fine as well. > > I can not find anything on the Plan9 site about this error and the only > thing I can dig up is this posting in which the author is having the same > error on a old 486 computer. > > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=plan9+floppyinitdev&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=U TF-8&selm=722224617%40snellwilcox.com&rnum=1 > > I emailed the author of this post to see if he ever got passed it or just > gave up. > > Also I read that debugging info is written to the bootdisk. Perhaps there is > something I can use to help me get this to boot. I'm not sure if it is > getting that far in the boot process. > > Thanks in advance, > Angelo Castigliola III > -- John Stalker Department of Mathematics Princeton University (609)258-6469