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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 18:12:13 +1000
From: Adrian Tritschler <ajft@ajft.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: [9fans] Reinstalled system won't boot
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Previously I had an IBM T21 laptop with a working 8G Plan9 installation=20
on a KFS system.  Since I needed more space for the Windows partition,=20
and wanted to convert the Plan9 system to fossil, I deleted the plan9=20
partition, then booted off a recent (this month) install CD and created=20
a 2.5G partition at the end of the disk.

Installation all went smoothly, partitions of 9fat, nvram, fossil and=20
swap.  I selected "plan9" as the boot method and it replaced my MBR as=20
expected.

Attempting to reboot gets to:
MBR...PBS...Plan 9 from Bell Labs
ELCR: 0800
apm ax=3Df000 cx=3Df000 dx=3D40 di=3Dffff ebx=3D43b3 esi=3D-1
dev A0 port 1F0 config 045A capabilities 0F00 mwdma 0007 udma 041F

and then hangs.  No combination of keystrokes I've tried seems to do=20
anything.

Booting from a floppy disk worked _once_, then I managed to do something=20
wrong while trying various "try this and try thats" from old 9fans and=20
screw up booting completely.

I've booted off the install CD, deleted the plan9 partition, recreated=20
it, reinstalled from the CD, and reselected the "plan9" boot.

Booting from the HD again gets me the above errors.

Booting from the floppy now gives the following:

1. sdC0!9fat!9pcf
2. sdC0!9fat!9pcf
3. none of the above
bootfile:

  When I select either of "1" or "2"

root is from (tcp, il, local)[local!#S/sdC0/fossil]:
user[none]: glenda
time...
fossil(#S/sdC0/fossil)...version...boot: couldn't bind $rootdir=3D/root/3=
e=20
to root: '/root/3e' file does not exit
boot: second bind /: '/root/3e' file does not exist
panic: boot process died: unknown
dumpstack disabled
cpu0: exiting

Where to now?

	Adrian

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Adrian Tritschler                          mailto:ajft@ajft.org
Latitude 38=C2=B0S, Longitude 145=C2=B0E, Altitude 50m,      Shoe size 44
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