From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 22:25:57 +0100 From: "Mathieu L." To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] booting problem Message-ID: <20060301212557.GD29509@gluon> References: <20060301174138.GB29509@gluon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Topicbox-Message-UUID: 090dc950-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 01:11:25PM -0500, Russ Cox wrote: > > Now my problem is that just after the bios stage, I just get some > > random colored caracters all around the screen and it just hangs there. > > > > Can anyone help with that? > > Somehow your BIOS doesn't want to boot from the hard drive. > One alternative is to download the boot floppy image and boot it. > At the boot from prompt, type "sdC0!9fat!9pcf" (no quotes), thx, but I can't even get passed that stage. When I enter this, nothing happens, it's as if it didn't see my sdC0 drive. Actually just before this prompt is: Boot devices: fd0 and that's all. Shouldn't sdC0 be listed here too? Cheers, Mathieu. -- "Monde de merde." Georges Abitbol. --