From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <55abcfd79404e59256c632b8e209eac1@plan9.bell-labs.com> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 22:15:02 -0400 From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] CF boot failure In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: c51c3df2-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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