From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] CF boot failure
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 22:15:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55abcfd79404e59256c632b8e209eac1@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a0513bc5bd3a140e993a13e23527b693@quanstro.net>
first guess would be that the bios on the old 440gx doesn't
know how to boot from a compact flash card, i.e. it doesn't
recognise it as a disc.
On Wed Oct 4 22:05:13 EDT 2006, quanstro@quanstro.net wrote:
> i installed plan 9 onto a CF card from the cd. it boots just fine on
> an nforce430 machine, but prints this
>
> MBR...I/O Error
> Press almost any key to reboot...
>
> on a pIII 440gx machine. booting from the floppy, the CF is detected and
> the partition table looks good and 9fat can be mounted and contains the
> usual suspects. does anyone know what's going on here? this same machine
> boots just fine from a regular hard drive.
>
> - erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-05 2:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-05 2:05 erik quanstrom
2006-10-05 2:15 ` jmk [this message]
2006-10-05 2:23 ` erik quanstrom
2006-10-05 2:59 ` jmk
2006-10-05 8:05 ` erik quanstrom
2006-10-05 21:29 ` erik quanstrom
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