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Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 08:16:49 +0900
From: Vester Thacker <vester.thacker@gmail.com>
To: Matthias Teege <mteege@gmail.com>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] partition boundaries out of range
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On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:20:39 +0200, Matthias Teege <mteege@gmail.com> wrote:
 
> I try to setup plan9 on my new server but on boot I get
> 
> cannot add sdC0!plan9 [63,321576705] to disk [0,268435455): partition
> boundaries out of range

I had the same problem on an Shuttle AMD64 machine with a 200 GB hard
drive. I'd recommend upgrading your BIOS first. Then if you still have
the same problem, then try my suggestion below.

The error message that I received occurred just before the
[bootsetup]: prompt. My believe it or not fix is to start the install
with a current plan9 CD, then paused the installation one prompt
before where the error message occured and go to work for 9 hours.
Then come back and continued the installation.  The remainder of the
install for me was error free. This worked fine for a Plan 9 install.

Now, that is strangest Plan 9 trick that I've had to do yet, but it
worked. YMMV.  ;)

--vester