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From: John Floren <jfloren@moseslake-wa.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] cdrom drive problems
Date: Thu,  3 Nov 2005 20:48:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <436ABDF6.1020901@moseslake-wa.com> (raw)

Hello everyone.
I've got an old Pentium machine here, and I'm trying to install Plan 9
on it.  It has a hard drive at primary master and a cdrom drive at
secondary master.  When I put in the boot cd (downloaded from the Bell
Labs website) and try to boot, I can get as far as a boot prompt saying
boot devices: fd0
boot from:

After that, no dice.  I've tried the old reliable
"sdD0!cdboot!9pcflop.gz", but I get an error saying that there is no
cdboot partition on the disk.  This same disk loads fine in qemu, so it
is not a burn problem.  Could it be that my IDE controller is simply not
supported?  Would using the 9grid.de iso image help?
Thanks

John Floren
-- 
http://nuwen.net/~digi/cluster
Jealousy is all the fun you think they have.


             reply	other threads:[~2005-11-04  1:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-04  1:48 John Floren [this message]
2005-11-04 19:39 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2005-11-04 19:45   ` John Floren
2005-11-06  7:45     ` Sergey Zhilkin
2005-11-07 23:53   ` John Floren
2005-11-08  0:06     ` Russ Cox
2005-11-08  0:44       ` John Floren
2005-11-08  0:58         ` Russ Cox

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