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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 21:14:31 +0100
From: Alexander Kegel <alexanderkegel@web.de>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] recent Bell .iso images don't boot in QEMU
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I ran into the same error on an OpenBSD machine (qemu version 1.7.0),
and obviously that error is a known problem.

However, I was able to boot and install the plan9.iso after moving the
cdrom to the slave of the disk's ide.

For me, that looked like:

qemu-system-x86_64 \
-drive file=9/Plan9.qcow2.img,if=ide,index=0,media=disk \
-drive file=9/plan9.iso,if=ide,index=1,media=cdrom -boot d

Hope that helps

Paul Ivanov <pi@berkeley.edu> schrieb am Mon, 24. Feb 10:09:
> Hey gang,

> As per the subject, I tried to start playing with plan 9, but
> kept running into this error:

>     dosinit: can't open #S/sdC0/9fat dosinit #S/sdC0/9fat failed

> and gives me a `Boot from:` prompt (which I have no idea what to do with)

> My boot command was `kvm -cdrom plan9.iso -boot d  -hdc
> Plan9.qcow2.img`. This is with

> QEMU emulator version 1.7.0 (Debian 1.7.0+dfsg-3), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
> Linux HbIOTOH 3.12-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.12.9-1 (2014-02-01) x86_64 GNU/Linux

> mischief on IRC suggested that I report this finding to the list.

> I also saw the same error message trying to boot 9legacy.iso (but
> perhaps that factoid should go to another list? forgive my
> ignorance).

> (I was finally able to get to Rio after getting a 9front.iso)

> best,