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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: fernanbolando@mailc.net, 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VirtualBox 4.0
Date: Sat,  1 Jan 2011 21:24:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <66b83b1464a6cf2e95daed4346386cd0@plug.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimhaCyjOqfbFXgvUniU6C+EqMCPpT9KjmDzcSS9@mail.gmail.com>

> I tried to do a fresh reinstall a few times, so in my case it's at
> least repeatable on
> a macbook.

your macbook.  milage seems to vary.  frustrating to not
know on what.

> > if so, can you try running fdisk and prep by hand
> > and seeing if the output makes sense?  also, one
> > can compare the first sector of the disk with the
> > mbr and the first sector of the plan 9 partition
> > with pbs.  they should be the same, modulo the
> > bits that disk/mbr fiddle.
> >
>
> you may need to give a least of commands to try as I am not sure
> how to do this in plan9.

start with
	disk/fdisk -p /dev/sd??/data
	disk/prep -p /dev/sd??/plan9
	dd -count 1 /dev/sd??/plan9 -count 1 | md5sum
	dd -if plan9 -count 1 | strings
	> should see something like
	       3: Plan9.00
	      43: CYLINDRICALFAT16
	     438: Bad format or I/O error
	     463: Press a key to reboot...
 	    488: 9LOAD
 	    500: PBS2...

you may need to open a new window to do this.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-02  2:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-30 18:02 sam ducksworth
2010-12-30 18:36 ` Steve Simon
2010-12-30 19:47   ` Sam Ducksworth
2010-12-30 18:52 ` Robbin Johnson
2010-12-30 19:52   ` Sam Ducksworth
2010-12-31  2:47     ` Fernan Bolando
2010-12-31 16:58       ` blstuart
2011-01-01 11:53         ` Fernan Bolando
2011-01-01 15:05           ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-02  2:00             ` Fernan Bolando
2011-01-02  2:24               ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2011-01-10  8:26 a z
2011-01-10  8:42 ` Fernan Bolando

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