From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 07:12:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9ece3f0ca87e9c3c1735f89775f6d365@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9aed80930905212320o272b3dc0h1009d7f1e2296630@mail.gmail.com>
> Ok so i'm hearing a lot of "unsupported" here.
> I just wanted to mention that when it boots up from the CD it shows boot
> devices: fd0 so it seems like only floppy is recognized.
>
> This could be because this DVD-drive is kinda glitchy, FreeBSD had issues
> with it too when i installed it but i just kept trying and after a few
> timeouts it worked.
>
> I'll just have to get my hands on one of those floppy disks i keep hearing
> so much about from my grandfather. ;)
it's most likely because your ide/sata chipset is not recognized.
if your interested in a solution, the output of lspci -n from linux
or pci from plan 9 would be helpful.
- erik
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-22 11:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-19 19:51 nocturnal
2009-05-19 20:21 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2009-05-19 20:32 ` erik quanstrom
2009-05-22 11:27 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2009-05-22 12:02 ` erik quanstrom
2009-05-22 13:20 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2009-05-22 13:51 ` Steve Simon
2009-05-22 15:01 ` blstuart
2009-05-22 15:22 ` Mathieu L.
2009-05-23 6:13 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2009-05-23 11:36 ` erik quanstrom
2009-05-26 9:19 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-05-31 12:30 ` erik quanstrom
2009-05-19 21:19 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-05-19 23:05 ` geoff
2009-05-19 23:21 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-05-20 18:38 ` hiro
2009-05-22 6:20 ` nocturnal
2009-05-22 10:08 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2009-05-22 11:12 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
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