From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Error on fresh install. References: <200104172020.QAA03782@smtp4.fas.harvard.edu> From: Alexis Paul Musgrave In-Reply-To: "Russ Cox"'s message of "Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:20:55 -0400" Message-ID: <87ae5f5kx8.fsf@smtp.cwcom.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) XEmacs/21.1 (Capitol Reef) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 21:30:11 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 847feea4-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 "Russ Cox" writes: > Fdisk is trying to read a partition table from something > it thinks is a fixed disk. Do you have anything else > plugged into your IDE controller besides hard disks > (like maybe an IDE floppy drive or a tape drive)? > > Russ > > Plan 9 is booting off a floppy at the moment, however, I get the same error if i chainload from grub, it may still be trying to read a partition table off something else still even then... not sure.... As for my setup, I have Plan 9 on the master on ide0 another ide drive on slave on ide0, and on ide1 i have two cdroms. The floppy drive is on its own floppy controller on the motherboard, although i do think the floppy drive/controller might be a bit buggy as it locks up my mahine occaisionally when i write to it. ,_Muz_ -- |- Alexis Paul (Muz) Musgrave - <0muz0@netgames-uk.com> ----| |- Running Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 on a 233MMX, 64MB RAM 13GB HD --------------| |- GPG: 1024D/B81D7661: 56C1 9054 6136 A42D 7EB6 608A 3F9E 591D B81D 7661 -| |- http://wwwkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=index&search=0xB81D7661 ------|