[9fans] plan9 instalation CD

[9fans] plan9 instalation CD

[Gabriel Cosentino de Barros]

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I've downloaded the plan9 instalation CD and booted a vmWare virtual machine
using that .iso as a cd rom media.

All went fine. It booted and i could install plan9 and even see the liveCD
stuff.

Then, to not be locked in the 30-day vmWare, i went to burn that CD and
install in dual boot.

First i burned it with Nero 6. I booted the computer, and it said something
about booting a 2.88MB floppy image. then ended up with the folowing lines
(may be diferent since i haven't wrote down all the text):
Available boot devices: fd0
what device to use: <i wrote fd0>
Must use device!file
what device to use: <i wrote fd0!plan9>
not found (ok, this text was very diferent but the idea was that :)
what device to use: <i wrote fd0!386/9load>
not found


When i first instaled in vmWare, it haven't outputed the "2.88MB floppy"
thingy, and started a menu with 1. install, 2. run from cd...

My first tought was that nero messed up with the image (I recall the
installer, in vmWare, showing me that there were 2 tracks on the CD ROM,
wich was the iso. and nero only wrote one track from that same iso) so i
wasted another media burning the .iso with alchool120%. but i've got the
same results.

Any ideia what i'm doing wrong? or the boot sequence is suposed to behave
like that (detecting vmWare, etc)?


Thanks,
Ganbriel

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Re: [9fans] plan9 instalation CD

[andrey mirtchovski]

the loader (9load) can't seem to find both the hard drive and the
CDROM (IDE, right?).  are they on the same cable by any chance?

andrey

Re: [9fans] plan9 instalation CD

[Russ Cox]

what's your cd-rom connected as?  the install tries

sdD0!dos!9pcflop.gz

sdC is primary, sdD is secondary, 0 is master, 1 is slave.

russ


On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 13:38:59 -0200, Gabriel Cosentino de Barros
<aut_gbarros@uolinc.com> wrote:
>  
> 
> I've downloaded the plan9 instalation CD and booted a vmWare virtual machine
> using that .iso as a cd rom media. 
> 
> All went fine. It booted and i could install plan9 and even see the liveCD
> stuff. 
> 
> Then, to not be locked in the 30-day vmWare, i went to burn that CD and
> install in dual boot. 
> 
> First i burned it with Nero 6. I booted the computer, and it said something
> about booting a 2.88MB floppy image. then ended up with the folowing lines
> (may be diferent since i haven't wrote down all the text): 
> 
> Available boot devices: fd0 
> what device to use: <i wrote fd0> 
> Must use device!file 
> what device to use: <i wrote fd0!plan9> 
> not found (ok, this text was very diferent but the idea was that :) 
> what device to use: <i wrote fd0!386/9load> 
> not found 
>  
> 
> When i first instaled in vmWare, it haven't outputed the "2.88MB floppy"
> thingy, and started a menu with 1. install, 2. run from cd... 
> 
> My first tought was that nero messed up with the image (I recall the
> installer, in vmWare, showing me that there were 2 tracks on the CD ROM,
> wich was the iso. and nero only wrote one track from that same iso) so i
> wasted another media burning the .iso with alchool120%. but i've got the
> same results. 
> 
> Any ideia what i'm doing wrong? or the boot sequence is suposed to behave
> like that (detecting vmWare, etc)? 
>  
> 
> Thanks, 
> Ganbriel

Re: [9fans] plan9 instalation CD

[Dan Cross]

Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> what's your cd-rom connected as?  the install tries
> 
> sdD0!dos!9pcflop.gz
> 
> sdC is primary, sdD is secondary, 0 is master, 1 is slave.

I suspect this might be a problem with 9load.  I pulled, rebuilt my
kernel, and copied a new(er) version of 9load into my 9fat on my CPU
server this morning.  I had to get someone on the East Coast to copy
an older version of 9load into place to get it to come back.

	- Dan C.

RE: [9fans] plan9 instalation CD

[Gabriel Cosentino de Barros]

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Yes that seems to be the case since it only gives me floppy. But they're
IDE0:0 and IDE:1:0. that is, each on one cable, but on the same controler
(onboard KX133 chipset)

the board i'm using: http://www.k7v.com/

i'm off to test on other machines. Is there any documented way to install
plan9 or inferno using only floppies or something like OpenBSD ftp install?


Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: andrey mirtchovski
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Sent: 5/12/2004 16:48
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9 instalation CD

the loader (9load) can't seem to find both the hard drive and the
CDROM (IDE, right?).  are they on the same cable by any chance?

andrey

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RE: [9fans] plan9 instalation CD

[andrey mirtchovski]

> Yes that seems to be the case since it only gives me floppy. But they're
> IDE0:0 and IDE:1:0. that is, each on one cable, but on the same controler
> (onboard KX133 chipset)
> 
> the board i'm using: http://www.k7v.com/
> 
> i'm off to test on other machines. Is there any documented way to install
> plan9 or inferno using only floppies or something like OpenBSD ftp install?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 

you can download a floppy from the plan9.bell-labs.com web site and do
a network install.  also try downloading a complete iso image from
that site and burning it anew.  i couldn't find out from your first
message whether you burned a brand new iso image.

andrey

RE: [9fans] plan9 instalation CD

[Gabriel Cosentino de Barros]

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 OK, teste on some other machines. both CDs booted like vmWare did :(
so, it's my ide controler for sure. Is there any purpose in trying booting
with a floppy to see that the next stage in the boot will reconize it?


-----Original Message-----
From: Gabriel Cosentino de Barros
To: '9fans@cse.psu.edu '
Sent: 5/12/2004 17:14
Subject: RE: [9fans] plan9 instalation CD

Yes that seems to be the case since it only gives me floppy. But they're
IDE0:0 and IDE:1:0. that is, each on one cable, but on the same
controler (onboard KX133 chipset)

the board i'm using: http://www.k7v.com/ <http://www.k7v.com/>  

i'm off to test on other machines. Is there any documented way to
install plan9 or inferno using only floppies or something like OpenBSD
ftp install?


Thanks 

-----Original Message----- 
From: andrey mirtchovski 
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu 
Sent: 5/12/2004 16:48 
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9 instalation CD 

the loader (9load) can't seem to find both the hard drive and the 
CDROM (IDE, right?).  are they on the same cable by any chance? 

andrey 


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