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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] hehe bad to worse
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 15:15:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AFAA228.9F447C34@null.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54386033737.20010509104820@proweb.co.uk>

matt wrote:
>   It all goes swimmingly until I reboot the fresh install :
>   MBR...PBS...Bad format or I/O error
>   Press almost any key to reboot...

I've seen that more times than I care to recall;
in my case it has always been associated with installing
any form of Plan 9 boot *other* than partition boot.
Of course, partition boot will lose your other OS
boot, but since I'm using System Commander I can fix
that by booting a rescue floppy and re-initing SC.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-05-10 15:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-09  9:48 matt
2001-05-10  5:17 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-05-10 15:15 ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
2001-05-10 15:36   ` Re[2]: " Matt H
2001-05-09 14:35 Russ Cox

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