From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: venti+fossil problems on new install
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:45:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7b2816dfacc7e033760a0a5f4bdf503b@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200609221830.ab12841@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
On Fri Sep 22 12:34:18 CDT 2006, stalker@maths.tcd.ie wrote:
> > 3. how do you verify that the disk driver is hosed?
>
> disk/fdisk claims it can't read the mbr:
>
> The disk you selected HAS NO master boot record on its first sector.
> (Perhaps it is a blank disk.)
> You need a master boot record to use the disk.
> Should we install a default master boot record?
> Install mbr (y,n)[no default]:
when you boot to freebsd, do you see "MBR" printed first thing?
if you don't then there the plan9 MBR is not installed.
i went through this two weeks ago with an unsupported sata chipset.
unfortunately, i didn't take notes.
one thing that is definately wrong nis the drive letters. if you
have a sata disk, then the drive letter should be know as /dev/sdE0.
i would try booting from the floppy and interrupting the installer with
"!rc" then
cd /dev
cat sdctl
for(i in sd??){
echo $i
cat $i/ctl
}
should give some interesting results.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-22 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-21 6:50 John Stalker
2006-09-21 8:13 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-21 18:19 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-09-21 18:25 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-21 18:51 ` jmk
2006-09-21 20:27 ` C H Forsyth
2006-09-21 20:47 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-09-21 20:56 ` jmk
2006-09-21 21:08 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-09-21 21:50 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-21 22:00 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-09-21 22:16 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-21 22:31 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-09-21 22:31 ` jmk
2006-09-21 23:22 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-21 23:28 ` geoff
2006-09-21 23:47 ` geoff
2006-09-22 0:05 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-22 0:24 ` Russ Cox
2006-09-22 0:50 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-22 1:25 ` jmk
2006-09-22 7:23 ` John Stalker
2006-09-22 11:23 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-22 17:30 ` John Stalker
2006-09-22 17:45 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2006-09-22 19:48 ` John Stalker
2006-09-22 20:09 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-22 20:50 ` John Stalker
2006-09-22 21:06 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-22 0:29 ` jmk
2006-09-21 23:52 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-21 23:59 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-22 0:50 ` geoff
2006-09-22 16:39 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-23 5:24 Zoran Kolic
2006-09-23 6:51 ` John Stalker
2006-09-23 10:34 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-23 15:04 ` Russ Cox
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