[9fans] Panic when booting for setup

[9fans] Panic when booting for setup

[Andreas Wiese]

Hello,

I think the first thing I should say is that I've never seen Plan9
before. 
I've got the ISO-image of the actual Plan9 release from the Plan9
homepage and now tried to install it under VMware (Linux 2.4.18).
Therefore I configured VMware to use the ISOimage as CD-ROM drive,
mounted the image as loop device and configured VMware to use
'bootdisk.img' from the CD's root as floppy disk. In VMware's 'BIOS' I
switched Floppy A: to '2.88MB 3 1/2"', but when booting I get the
following message:

,---------------------------------------------------.
| PBS...Plan 9 from Bell Labs                       |
| ELCR: 0200                                        |
| apm ax=f000 cx=f000 dx=40 di=ffff ebx=4c72 esi=-1 |
| FLAGS=246 TRAP=e ECODE=2 PC=80029ddc              |
| x, nmiesc=0x80311000                              |
|   SI 00cef000  DI 81000000  BP 80311000           |
|   CS 0010 DS 0008  ES 0008  FS 0008  GS 0008      |
|   CR0 80000011 CR2 81000000 CR3 0000c000          |
| panic: exception/interrupt 14                     |
`---------------------------------------------------'

And VMware stops doing anything :(

Is there any way to install this nice OS or can anybody say, what's the
reason for this message? 

TIA

Regards, 

awiese
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Re: [9fans] Panic when booting for setup

[Russ Cox]

> I've got the ISO-image of the actual Plan9 release from the Plan9
> homepage and now tried to install it under VMware (Linux 2.4.18).
> Therefore I configured VMware to use the ISOimage as CD-ROM drive,
> mounted the image as loop device and configured VMware to use
> 'bootdisk.img' from the CD's root as floppy disk. In VMware's 'BIOS' I

Boot the CD directly instead.

> switched Floppy A: to '2.88MB 3 1/2"', but when booting I get the
> following message:
> 
> ,---------------------------------------------------.
> | PBS...Plan 9 from Bell Labs                       |
> | ELCR: 0200                                        |
> | apm ax=f000 cx=f000 dx=40 di=ffff ebx=4c72 esi=-1 |
> | FLAGS=246 TRAP=e ECODE=2 PC=80029ddc              |
> | x, nmiesc=0x80311000                              |
> |   SI 00cef000  DI 81000000  BP 80311000           |
> |   CS 0010 DS 0008  ES 0008  FS 0008  GS 0008      |
> |   CR0 80000011 CR2 81000000 CR3 0000c000          |
> | panic: exception/interrupt 14                     |
> `---------------------------------------------------'

VMware does not boot 2.88MB floppy images from the floppy
drive.  2.88MB images only boot as part of a CD boot.

> Is there any way to install this nice OS or can anybody say, what's the
> reason for this message? 

Sure, go to the additional software page and download the preinstalled
VMware disk images.

Russ