From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <49247.222.153.33.84.1157347886.squirrel@mail2.monitorbm.co.nz> Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 17:31:26 +1200 From: To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: [9fans] Boot problems Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: b021b88c-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 Pl= an9 on my antique Thinkpad 380XD, which was running an older build in peacefu= l 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 Pl= an 9. The installation completed after a few problems, I selected plan9 as t= he 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 t= o 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= .