From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) In-Reply-To: <20071101232609.8A2185C066@mail.cse.psu.edu> References: <20071101232609.8A2185C066@mail.cse.psu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <83C5C00A-2076-4B5E-B796-C28472DB9FEF@utopian.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Joshua Wood Subject: Re: [9fans] Problems Booting Plan9 CD Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:15:47 -0700 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Topicbox-Message-UUID: e59954c4-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Hehe. There is no floppy drive. But thanks for all the help > you've given > me. In my experience, that is precisely the reason why you should follow erik's suggestion and disable that non-existent floppy in bios. More to the point, you can boot with an older iso image; I've been using my 10/12 burn for exactly that purpose. Once you have a plan 9 system up, you have access to pull(1) and sourcesdump/yyyy/mmdd/ plan9/386/9load to do your testing of the (several, lately) new 9load on your hardware, and a bootable cd with a known-good 9load when you fail. My follow-on question for the list based on my experience with that general procedure is: Is there anywhere to get an old iso image for someone in Eldanen's situation? (That is, neither an old burn to fall back on nor an existing plan9 machine to use to get an old 9load from sourcesdump to make a bootstrap for his new machine?) -- josh