From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.0.20031025184331.026099c0@pop.noos.fr> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Philippe Anel Subject: Re: [9fans] pcf config file ... In-Reply-To: References: <20031025154056.1719919B41@mail.cse.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 18:52:37 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7874f818-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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.