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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:03:54 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] VMWare Fusion on the Mac, can't install Plan 9 ....
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On Tue Nov 20 11:43:06 EST 2007, mirtchovski@gmail.com wrote:
> > It draws nicely then.  I can even boot the live Plan 9 CD, but it will
> > not boot from the installed system for some reason.
> 
> If you have an older kernel lying around try booting with it instead
> of the latest kernels. i recently did a pull on my parallels
> installation and found that 9load does its job, loads the kernel which
> then hangs after it prints "entry: somehex". i am unable to
> investigate more, but using a 6-month-old kernel works fine. the only
> observable difference on the screen is that the printout is "entry:
> 0xsomehex" ;)
> 
> i'll report to geoff if i figure it out.

i am currently working on isolating this problem.  i am seeing
exactly the same thing with my version of 9load.

the problem seems to be a change in load.c

- erik