From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:02:10 +0100 From: "Mathieu L." To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Isn't Booting Message-ID: <20060320230210.GL16553@gluon> References: <1C19183D-1023-4C26-8FD5-D19469094637@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1C19183D-1023-4C26-8FD5-D19469094637@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1ab0f1be-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hi, This seems very similar to a problem I had a few weeks ago; an install taht went perfectly but then impossible to get anything else than a screen of random chars blinking when trying to boot. Haven't found the time to look more into it since then so I'd really like it if you could let me know if you make any progress regarding that. Cheers, Mathieu. On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 08:24:23AM +0900, SHRIZZA wrote: > Summary: Plan 9 doesn't boot after a seemingly successful install. > > Details: After booting and playing around on the live CD for a bit, I > decided to give the installation a whirl. A couple entries of "i/o > error" in the device detection step kept me from advancing in the > installation. I tried restarting the installation process with DMA > off and I successfully cleared the device detection with no problems. > > The rest of the installation went smooth: deleted the one and only > partition, added a new partition (on sdC0), set the partition type to > "PLAN9", had it subdivided according to the default config, installed > files from the dist, and had the installer make a Plan 9 boot file > for me. After finishing the install, I rebooted and set the C drive > as the first priority boot device. From here, I expected that the > machine would just boot right into Plan 9 since I had set is as a > plan9 boot config. > > Instead, I got a screen that looked similar to the screen I got when > my CD-ROM drive was set as secondary slave (this was before all this, > obviously): > >