From: John Stalker <stalker@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>,
Zoran Kolic <zkolic@sbb.co.yu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: venti+fossil problems on new install
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 07:51:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609230751.aa34074@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060923052450.GA625@faust.net>
I know this is all a bit confusing. The error message complains
about the mbr, but the mbr is really fine. All of it. The boot
manager, partition table and magic number on the first sector of
the disk are all fine. Since the sector itself is fine, the
error message therefore must mean that there is a problem reading
the first sector. This is done by the rc script inst/hasmbr from
a hexdump of the first sector. It's the disk read which is
failing, despite the fact that the sector has already been read
correctly at least once at this point in the install.
Unfortunately I have to go away for a couple of weeks, and won't
really have time to try anything else on the install until I get
back.
> Hi all!
> Sorry if I missed the point in this issue.
> FreeBSD in particular has an option to in-
> stall not just mbr, but even boot manager.
> It is what you probably want.
>
> Zoran
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-23 6:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-23 5:24 Zoran Kolic
2006-09-23 6:51 ` John Stalker [this message]
2006-09-23 10:34 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-23 15:04 ` Russ Cox
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2006-09-21 6:50 John Stalker
2006-09-21 8:13 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-21 18:19 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-09-21 18:25 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-21 18:51 ` jmk
2006-09-21 20:27 ` C H Forsyth
2006-09-21 20:47 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-09-21 20:56 ` jmk
2006-09-21 21:08 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-09-21 21:50 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-21 22:00 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-09-21 22:16 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-21 22:31 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-09-21 22:31 ` jmk
2006-09-21 23:22 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-21 23:28 ` geoff
2006-09-21 23:47 ` geoff
2006-09-22 0:05 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-22 0:24 ` Russ Cox
2006-09-22 0:50 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-22 1:25 ` jmk
2006-09-22 7:23 ` John Stalker
2006-09-22 11:23 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-22 17:30 ` John Stalker
2006-09-22 17:45 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-22 19:48 ` John Stalker
2006-09-22 20:09 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-22 20:50 ` John Stalker
2006-09-22 21:06 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-22 0:29 ` jmk
2006-09-21 23:52 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-21 23:59 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-22 0:50 ` geoff
2006-09-22 16:39 ` erik quanstrom
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