From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 09:59:04 +0000 From: Michael Giegerich Message-ID: <8kgksl$gb$1@luva.home> Subject: [9fans] plan9v3 won't start (PBS...Bad format or I/O error) Topicbox-Message-UUID: da7cc6c0-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 (Sorry if this shows up twice, but my news- server doesn't seem to have spread this). Install of plan9v3 onto my Sony 505 laptop went more or less smooth... Plan9 resides in the 2nd partition after a 3 GB Win98 partition. Plan9's partition is 1 GB. When doing bootsetup I 1st tried the "plan9" option and it told me that its partition is more than 2 GB in sdC0, and thus installed its own (more capable) mbr. Despite this, when booting I get the message: PBS..Bad format or I/O error Press almost any key to reboot... BTW, when using a floppy to boot everything is fine (that means I can login as glenda and explore this new world...). One more information: in the plan9 partition I had previously OpenBSD installed (with its kernel within the 1st 1000 cyls of the hd. Booting was never a problem). Any help anyone? And something more: is it possible to use history and command completion with rc? While I'm at it: is it possible to emulate the middle button on a 2-button-mouse? -- M. Giegerich, mail: migieger@vsnl.com, phone: +91.(0)80.5530154