From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tlaronde@polynum.com Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 17:27:49 +0200 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] IBM X40 installation - some more details, but long Message-ID: <20070702152749.GA1700@polynum.com> References: <20070702143921.GA1463@polynum.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8f45a1e0-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 10:45:20AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > he's copying the boot stuff to the hard drive because although bios can > access the usb cdrom, 9load cannot. it doesn't know how. this means > 9load can't load a kernel unless he puts it someplace else. Well, I interpreted this: ---quote 3. boot from usb-cd using bootable CD created from plan9.iso.bz2 - here the installer asks about some file, so I satisfy this demand by giving !sdC0!dos!9pcflop.gz ---endquote so I understand that by giving fd0!dos!9pcflop.gz (since BIOS should have arranged with El Torito that the floppy image appears as fd0) should be enough? (9pcflop.gz is on the floppy image, isn't it?). -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C