Ok,

Now I can understand more :=)

First of all, the kernel you are using 9pcdisk is the one used to boot from 
the kfs image of the CD.

You should use the 9pcf kernel to boot a fossil terminal.

If you want vesa, look in the CD you downloaded for the correct kernel and 
put it in 9fat.
I can't remeber where are those kernels in the 9grid.de
<http://9grid.de>vesa right now, but a quick search in archives will
give you the answer i
think.

So, change your kernel to 9pcf and try booting again.

gabi

2005/8/25, Ezequiel Reyes <ezequiel.reyes@newhotel.co.cu>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > where you download your CD image?
> 
> > are you speaking about the vesa one provided in 9grid.de<http://9grid.de>
> ?
> 
> Yes, it is the vesa image, sadly, the standard would not work with my 
> nvidia
> GeForce4 and I couldn't find any info on the archives or the net of any 
> one
> being able to make it work with plan 9 or modify an entry in the vgadb to
> make it work. All I got was a black screen.
> 
> What kind of installation you done? (kfs or fossil or fossil+venti)
> 
> fossil, during instalation I was given [fossil, fossil+venti] with fossil 
> as
> default, there was no kfs option, I understand it is an old format of
> filesystem, but I did notice both, the demo system and the install system 
> on
> the CD used kfs when starting.
> 
> Do you see any error during install process?
> 
> no errors, all steps went fine, the only step that would fail was the last
> one, the boot setup process, since it offered floppy or plan9, I could not
> select the later since I have a dual booting system, the floppy failed
> trying to find the floppy need files on sdD1, which I don't have, it 
> didn't
> give me any choise to change the path to sdC1 which is my CD drive, that's
> is what I had been doing to get there, changing the path from sdD1 to sdC1
> every time it happened. So I gave it a ctrl-d and next came finish. I
> thought I would later be able to find and edit if needed the plan9.iniusing
> the demo system on the CD and with some advice so I did. There was a
> plan9.ini on 9fat but it was empty.
> 
> Where is the advice of the plan9.ini file edition ?
> 
> thread -> Re: [9fans] accesing a local fossil
> 
> Normally plan9.ini is generated automatically and works well, and normally
> you should done a fossil installation.
> 
> as I said, I did, there were no error on install, but later. I found the
> plan9.ini was empy (perhaps it would have been filled in the bootsetup 
> step
> of the instalation that I could not perform?)
> 
>