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From: Philippe Anel <philippe.anel@noos.fr>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] pcf config file ...
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 18:52:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.0.20031025184331.026099c0@pop.noos.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310251024230.10808-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov >

At 18:27 25/10/03, you wrote:
>On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Anel Philippe wrote:
>
> > It's seems there is a problem with the installation
> > cd.
>
>I have not seen that. I have been installing a lot with that cd lately, as
>I keep screwing up -- er, I mean, I keep learning by doing. My latest
>install happened when I had it all working and ... the IBM travelstar died
>(click .. click .. click .. click)

Same problem here with my 2 year old IBM 40GB disk (kfs).


>At this point I've made every possible mistake you can make on installs,
>you betcha, and this is one problem I have not seen.

Hehe ... Therefore, I suspect I have a bad karma :)


> > I can't use the kernel I've compiled.
>
> > 1- install the cd (using text/instonly because
> > my radeon isn't supported yet :) ).
> > 2- reboot
> > 3- log as 'sys'
> > 4- cd /sys/src/9/pc
> > 5- mk 'CONF=pcf'
> > 6- 9fat:
> > 7- cp 9pcf /n/9fat/9pcf2
> > 8- add bootfile=sdC0!9fat!9pcf2 to plan9.ini
> > 9- reboot
> > 10- use 9pcf2 kernel
>
>Weird, I did exactly this step and it worked fine. I could send you the
>pcf I have built to see if you have the same problem.

Ok. But the I really need to recompile the kernel.
I think I'll re-install a kfs based standalone terminal.


>When you say 'clean install', what precisely was on that disk before you
>did the install?

Err... Windows XP :)
Perhaps it not my bad karma's fault after all.

>and, did the install procedure ask you about writing the
>MBR?

Yes, but I didn't installed it because I'm using the FreeBSD multiboot mbr.

         Regards,
         Philippe.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-25 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-25 16:26 Anel Philippe
2003-10-25 16:27 ` ron minnich
     [not found]   ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310251024230.10808-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov >
2003-10-25 16:52     ` Philippe Anel [this message]
2003-10-25 16:59       ` ron minnich
2003-10-25 17:06   ` Russ Cox
2003-10-25 17:42     ` Christian Grothaus
2003-10-25 18:22       ` Russ Cox
2003-10-25 17:48     ` Philippe Anel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-25  9:19 xigh
2003-10-25 14:27 ` ron minnich
2003-10-25 18:27 ` Russ Cox
2003-10-25 19:39   ` Philippe Anel
2003-10-25 23:18     ` Russ Cox
2003-10-26 18:09       ` Philippe Anel
2003-10-26 18:20         ` ron minnich
2003-10-26 18:30           ` Russ Cox
2003-10-26 18:26         ` Russ Cox
2003-10-26 18:32           ` Dan Cross
2003-10-26 19:37             ` Philippe Anel
2003-10-25  9:17 Philippe Anel

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