From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:09:22 +0200 Message-ID: <3BBB12CF4EFF4040B38542759379E3CD0278F5@XMAIL.asuch.cas.cz> From: To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: [9fans] installation on SATYA disk failed Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2c09f7d6-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hi, folks! I have bought a WDC WD1002FBYS-01A6B0 SATA II disk to install a Plan 9 = on it. However , my CD/DVD drive is not SATA, but a rather old one = hanging on an IDE cable (primary master). Moreover, there is only one = IDE slot on the motherboard, thus I cannot make the CD to be 'secondary = master'. Trying to boot from CD did not work any combination of = sdXX!cdboot!9pcflop.gz Thus, I made a small DOS-formatted FAT16 = partition on the SATA disk, copied files from installation floppy on it, = and tried to boot from it: boot from: bios0!9pcflop.gz This is what I get: PBS1... Plan 9 from Bell Labs ELCR:CCL8 pcirouting: South bridge 8086, 2810 not found islba: drive 0x80 extensions version 48.0 cx 0x5 exgetsize: drive 0x80 info flags 0x0 bios0: drive 0x80: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes, type 3 reading drive 0x80 offset 0 into seg: off 0x6000000...biosdiskcall: int = 13 op 042 drive 0x80 failed, ah error code 0x80 sectread: bios failed to read 512@sector 0 of 0x80 bios0!9fat does not contain a FAT file system This seems to me like SATA disk is unreadable. So, I added a second (slave) HD on IDE0, with a small FAT partition, = etc., and booted: sdB0!dos!9pcflop.gz and voila, installer runs, but only up to the '[partdisk]: no disk = devices were found on your system. The installation process cannot = continue.' I consulted the 9fans archives getting a hint that the SATA driver must = be built in the 9pcflop.gz Now I am lost so I would be grateful for any = advice. Thanks, regards, ++pac.