[9fans] hehe bad to worse

[9fans] hehe bad to worse

[matt]

Hullo 9fans,

  So I abandoned my update plan and thought ah well, I'll just
  download the latest version and start again, I've not really done
  anything yet so I won't lose much.

  It all goes swimmingly until I reboot the fresh install :

  MBR...PBS...Bad format or I/O error
  Press almost any key to reboot...

  If I send £100 to Boyd maybe he'll jump on Eurostar and come shoot
  me and put me out of my misery.

  Anyone got a better idea?
  

-- 
 If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright

 matt                          mailto:matt@proweb.co.uk

Re: [9fans] hehe bad to worse

[Boyd Roberts]

>   If I send £100 to Boyd maybe he'll jump on Eurostar and come shoot
>   me and put me out of my misery.

the eurostar is a deathtrap.

my contract states i cannot work for anybody else (ie. no payment).

i have a slight firefight here to deal with first.

£100?  nope.  £1000/day.

Re: [9fans] hehe bad to worse

[Douglas A. Gwyn]

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.

Re[2]: [9fans] hehe bad to worse

[Matt H]

Hello Douglas,

Thursday, May 10, 2001, 4:15:20 PM, you wrote:

DAG> 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...

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

no, it's a blank disk.

The Aug2000 CD install works just fine. If I use the current I get "Bad
Format"

applying the updates to this install I get

cpu% mk 'CONF=pccpudisk' 9pccpudisk
mk: don't know how to make 'segment.h'
cpu%

When I try the updates I get "version newer than update" messages for
quite a few important sounding files.

Is there a way of downlaoding the full CURRENT source rather than
incremental updates? and then do a make world equivalent?

-- 
Best regards,
 Matt                            mailto:matt@proweb.co.uk

Re: [9fans] hehe bad to worse

[Russ Cox]

did you install in a partition located
more than 8GB into the disk?