From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 14:45:19 -0500 From: John Floren Subject: Re: [9fans] cdrom drive problems In-reply-to: <126a2f7d0511041139q625cb2fej47720e7ea5dbce4e@mail.gmail.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Message-id: <436BBA4F.1090108@moseslake-wa.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20051002) References: <436ABDF6.1020901@moseslake-wa.com> <126a2f7d0511041139q625cb2fej47720e7ea5dbce4e@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: a6029c8c-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Sergey Zhilkin wrote: > Just try the floppy disk from plan9.bell-labs.com > :) > > On 11/4/05, *John Floren* < 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 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 :-) -- http://nuwen.net/~digi/cluster Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.