Re: [9fans] T21 boot failure after successful install

["Anthony Sorace" <anothy@gmail.com>]

On 4/8/06, Russ Cox wrote:
// Try booting a cd and then running

[a bunch of instructions for replacing 9load w/ 9loadlite

well, that's changed the behavior, at least. now i get to 'boot from',
but fd0 is the only recognized boot device (which is odd, since
there's no floppy in the thing).

And jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
// ...the T21 can have either an Intel 82557 or a 3Com
// mini-PCI ethernet installed. If it's the latter, I don't
// think we've ever tried that and possible problems with
// the 3Com drivers have been reported recently.

the kernel from the cd does report an elnk3; i've not yet had a chance
to test the network on it. again, though, the cd kernel boots clean
with no problem.