From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200312142201.hBEM1Afq022083@math.Princeton.EDU> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] booting plan9 cd on thinkpad x23 In-reply-to: <20031214171825.23971.qmail@web60507.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20031214171825.23971.qmail@web60507.mail.yahoo.com> From: John Stalker Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 17:01:10 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a27cb894-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > It then goes on to "Root from:". Experimenting and > using the above hint I now reply "local!#S/sdC0/dos", > continue as user "none" and it actually tries to start > kfs, but complains and eventually fails on the ground > that 9P cannot be initialized. Before failing > completely (9P) it asks a question about "reme?" or > something like that about kfs, which I cannot remember > right now. If I don't answer anything, the kernel > panics after a few seconds: The panic message says > something with illegal access -- that something is > tinkering with the kernel... Ream. It thinks you have a corrupted kfs file system. In fact you have no kfs file system. It's probably a good thing the kernel panics at this point as trying to repair or reformat that nonexistent filesytem might do nasty things to the other operating system(s) on your hard disk. -- John Stalker Department of Mathematics Princeton University (609)258-6469