From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 19:44:53 -0500 From: John Floren Subject: Re: [9fans] cdrom drive problems In-reply-to: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Message-id: <436FF505.6070003@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> <436FE8FA.7060507@moseslake-wa.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: a89e94aa-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Russ Cox wrote: >>I just thought of this... if I have to boot the installer from a floppy, >>will I have to boot the system (once installed) from a floppy as well? >>If 9load or whatever it is can't handle booting from CDROM, will it work >>with my hard drive? > > > It's very common for 9load to have trouble with > recognizing certain CDROMs. It has no such trouble > with IDE disks. > > Russ > > . > It has been unable to recognize either of the two CDROM drives I've tried... could it be that my IDE controller is the problem? John -- http://nuwen.net/~digi/cluster That's no moon... -- Obi-wan Kenobi