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From: Michael Collins <mhtexcollins@austin.rr.com>
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Subject: [9fans] Re: Booting error
Date: Thu,  3 May 2001 16:59:00 +0000
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In my limited experience, all these are caused by hard drive probs.

seems p9 doesn't like flaky hd's


Alexis Paul Musgrave wrote:

> I have only managed to boot into my plan9 install once, and i _can't_
> remeber what i did to get it working...... 
> 
> When i boot, after logging in, and before rio starts i get:
> 
> disk/fdisk diskread 68 at 0.446 i/o error
> 
> and it just sits there....
> 
> Is this to do with my partition table ? the layout of the
> sub-partitions ? should i let the thing wait longer ? or is there
> something i have missed ?
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> ,_Muz_


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