From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: From: Adriano Verardo Message-ID: <57C9AADA.70201@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 18:37:46 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0 SeaMonkey/2.40 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VMs Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9c64da4c-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 cinap_lenrek@felloff.net wrote: >> Yes. Follwed the ~usual install procedure. All ok till bootsetup included. >> Confirmed the "finish" step, unsolicited reboot, restart from .iso >> Hiding the CD, boot fails saying that there is no OS on the HD. > ... another possibility is that no master boot record got installed (you > get prompted for that during installation). > > to manually update the mbr, see prep(8): > > disk/mbr -m /386/mbr /dev/sdC0/data Hi, cinap Yes, on physical boxes I've faced this kind of problems several times in the past years. All noted in my personal "troubleshooting memo" But building the VM many times from scratch, tracking questions and answers on paper, configuring all possible type of disk etc etc etc ... I couldnt get a bootable VM. I'm sure the problem is the mix "obsolete(Win+VMware) + up-to-date Plan9 distro". Bell and 9legacy both install on the fly. Having some constraints, I'm looking for a whatever (set of) VM to have all/many distros running on my desk, being convinced that's not reasonable to adapt current distros to a prehistoric environment. adriano > > -- > cinap > >