From: <andrew.simmons@monitorbm.co.nz>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] Boot problems
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 17:31:26 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49247.222.153.33.84.1157347886.squirrel@mail2.monitorbm.co.nz> (raw)
Having been inspired to work through Nemo's outstanding draft book - for
which many many thanks - I've been trying to install a recent build of Plan9
on my antique Thinkpad 380XD, which was running an older build in peaceful
coexistence with Windows 95, and I have hit a few problems.
Given that no-one was any longer using the machine to run Windows 95, I
decided to trash the Windows partition and give the whole disk over to Plan
9. The installation completed after a few problems, I selected plan9 as the
boot method and - I think this could have been my mistake - I elected to
overwrite the existing MBR. When I powered up the machine, it briefly
displayed 'MBR...', which vanished to be replaced by an underscore, after
which nothing happened.
Having looked through the archives, I tried:
disk/format -b /386/pbs /dev/sdC0/9fat
which reported 'used 0 bytes' On re-booting, the machine displayed:
MBR...PBS1...
and then nothing happened.
I tried using /386/pbslba instead, and got:
MBR...PBS2...
after which nothing happened. The machine boots fine from CD, but seems to
lose touch with the CD drive after a while and then lock up.
I have no clue what I am doing here, and would appreciate any suggestions.
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2006-09-04 5:31 andrew.simmons [this message]
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2006-09-04 7:36 Fco. J. Ballesteros
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