From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Bootsetup will not create floppy
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 08:09:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6a906efab4cdb598dc117e3de052082b@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b7ec34790712090446r94a2d1aw8ac4a9a7d28cfe2@mail.gmail.com>
> >
> > I have successfully (?) installed plan 9 from the Live/installation CD .
> > However Bootsetup will not create a boot floppy.
> > Afer inserting a floppy in the drive and pressing 'enter' I get the following error message:
> >
> > ls /dev/sd0/cdboot '/dev/sdD0' file does not exist
> > will not format non-floppy disk /dev/sdD0/cdboot
> >
> > My CD drive is sdC1 (primary slave) . So I guess that Bootsetup is unable to find the source file it needs to create the floppy .
> > Is this assessment of the problem correct?
>
> Yes.
i think the problem is a bit different. /sys/lib/dist/pc/inst/bootfloppy
appears to have been told that the floppy is /dev/sdD0/cdboot. the
floppy is /dev/fd0disk. in any event, i believe that plan 9 kernels with
venti/fossil are too large for a 1.44MB floppy:
; 9fs sources; cd /n/sources/plan9/386
; ls -l 9load 9pcf.gz|awk '{s+=$6}END{print s}'
1567751
generally one boots from the 9fat partition instead. the
livecd can also be used in case of emergency.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-09 13:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-09 11:01 Alasdair Reed
2007-12-09 12:46 ` Navin Johnson
2007-12-09 13:09 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2007-12-09 13:11 Joshua Wood
2007-12-11 12:21 ` Alasdair Reed
2007-12-11 15:21 ` Joshua Wood
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