From: John Floren <jfloren@moseslake-wa.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] cdrom drive problems
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 14:45:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <436BBA4F.1090108@moseslake-wa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <126a2f7d0511041139q625cb2fej47720e7ea5dbce4e@mail.gmail.com>
Sergey Zhilkin wrote:
> Just try the floppy disk from plan9.bell-labs.com
> <http://plan9.bell-labs.com> :)
>
> On 11/4/05, *John Floren* < jfloren@moseslake-wa.com
> <mailto:jfloren@moseslake-wa.com>> wrote:
>
> 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 <http://9grid.de> iso image help?
> Thanks
>
> John Floren
> --
> http://nuwen.net/~digi/cluster
> Jealousy is all the fun you think they have.
>
>
Problem is locating a floppy disk :-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-04 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-04 1:48 John Floren
2005-11-04 19:39 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2005-11-04 19:45 ` John Floren [this message]
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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