[9fans] plan9 install disk problem

[9fans] plan9 install disk problem

[alberjo]

booting plan9 with recent install disk on gateway
486 produces the following:

sing (bunch-of-symbols)
	elnk 0x300 (bunch-of-symbols)
fd0!dos!plan9.gz (bunch-of-symbols)
sdC0=(bunch-of-symbols)
boot from:

pressing just return here causes panic.

the text above is not exactly correct, but Im not
in front of the box right now.

This box is otherwise known to be functional, and
the floppy boots another pc that Im using without
problems.

Iam going to try copying the image to a hd and see
if that will work, but wouldn't mind knowing if
booting from the floppy will fly.

Thanks, -j


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[9fans] plan9 install disk problem

[alberjo]

booting 486 gateway with recent plan9 install disk produces following:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
PBS...Plan 9 from Bell Labs
using			96,?a,4,128,34,?b,1,128,?c,?b,1,128


		ether#0: elnk3: port 0x300 irq 10: 00608CB80176
Unknown boot device: fd0!dos!9pcflop.gz
Boot devices:	96,?a,4,128,34,?b,1,128,?c,?b,1,128  244,254,3,128,132
?b,?d ether0 ?b,?d
 sdC0 ?b,?d
boot from:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
numbers represent dec. value of PC extended character set for the ones
I could identify.  If an unknown symbol is repeated a letter is
appended to the ? to designate that.

pressing return at this point will cause a panic with this output:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
FLAGS=10286 TRAP=e ECODE=80000000 PC=f000e2c6
  AX f000e2c6  BX 00000073 CX 80041c58 DX 00e2c6f0
  SI 00000000  DI 8002f01c BP 8002f022
  CS 0010 DS 0008  ES 0008  FS 0008  GS 0008
  CR0 80000011 CR2 f000e2c6 CR3 0000c000
^P to reset
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

the box is otherwise known to be functional, the same floppy will work
fine in another machine I have.

thank you, -j


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Re: [9fans] plan9 install disk problem

[rsc]

  the text above is not exactly correct, but Im not
  in front of the box right now.

Exactly what it prints would be useful.
The bunches of symbols have important bits in them
(except the line of dots).