Re: [9fans] booting plan9 cd on thinkpad x23

[John Stalker <stalker@Math.Princeton.EDU>]

> Right.
>
> I copied plan9-cd directly to win2k and before that to
> its own partition. It turns out that win2k resides on
> a fat32lba-disk, which is recognized by 9load, so I
> didn't really need a particular dos-partition.
>
> LD.COM doesn't work. I have tried many differenct
> options, but it just doesn't start. I've tried booting
> in dos-mode (failsafe).

I've never tried to use it, but I'll try it out
on my laptop.  Win2k's DOS emulation is kind of
flaky.  FreeDOS may work better.  I hope to avoid
going that route if possible, though.

>
> The kernel did recognize my NIC (e100/eepro100), the
> cardbus and my usb! I've been reading up on the
> manual-pages 9load(8) and plan9.ini(8), but I don't
> know what to try next...
>
> Thank you,
> Dennis Decker Jensen
>

I will see if I can get this to work on my desktop.  I have
the advantage that I have a working plan9 installation on
my laptop which I can compare things to.

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John Stalker
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Princeton University
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