From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7d3530220612051505w46f6dad8x8ec38da3a9328340@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 18:05:53 -0500 From: "John Floren" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Fwd: Trouble with loading from plan9.iso In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1844095190.20061205152015@lexus.lg.bank.gov.ua> Topicbox-Message-UUID: eb7c1b84-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 12/5/06, Russ Cox wrote: > Here is some mail to 9trouble as per our earlier discussion. Enjoy. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: intra@lexus.lg.bank.gov.ua > Date: Dec 5, 2006 8:20 AM > Subject: Trouble with loading from plan9.iso > To: 9trouble@plan9.bell-labs.com > > > Hello! I 've downloaded > http://cm.bell-labs.com/plan9/download/plan9.iso.bz2 , burned > plan9.iso by Nero. I want to install it on my x86 system, or see how > it works (Live CD), but I saw: > boot from: > I tried, as in http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Installation_troubleshooting/index.html > sdC0!cdboot!9pcflop.gz > sdC1!cdboot!9pcflop.gz > sdD0!cdboot!9pcflop.gz > sdD1!cdboot!9pcflop.gz > but only then > boot from: sdD0!cdboot!9pcflop.gz > sdD0!cdboot unknown partition. > > > > Please, help me, or give mail that people, which can help me! > > > > -- > Best regards, > Sergey mailto:intra@lexus.lg.bank.gov.ua > The problem here is that 9load and some drive controllers are apparently made of fail and AIDS. I have experienced this same problem with a working CD on an older Pentium machine. I don't think I ever solved it. John -- Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn