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From: john@jfloren.net (John Floren)
Subject: [9fans] New venti install won't boot after 05:00 crash
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:33:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimAGazB5Ln+UzcGScTQUo7Z_RQbNNp=PW1a9ffB@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim26sHRcA5iYN0Jcmym7hDPOHSYkeSSYqsxJfyn@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Jacob Todd <jaketodd422 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Did you zero the plan 9 partition first? I recall having a problem like this
> when installing over an existing plan 9 installation,? all i had to do was
> zero that partition and everything worked fine after that.

Yes, be sure to try this. A couple years ago this bit me... at least
at that time, if you re-installed over an existing Plan 9 filesystem,
it wouldn't actually re-format the partition. So I kept re-installing
and finding my same old configuration files and stuff in my home
directory.


John



  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-18 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-18  0:58 smiley at zenzebra.mv.com
2011-03-18  3:03 ` John Floren
2011-03-18 13:26   ` smiley at zenzebra.mv.com
2011-03-18  3:22 ` ron minnich
2011-03-18  3:30   ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-18 15:47     ` smiley at zenzebra.mv.com
2011-03-18 16:12       ` Jacob Todd
2011-03-18 17:33         ` John Floren [this message]
2011-03-18 23:45           ` Steve Simon
2011-03-19  0:02             ` ron minnich
2011-03-19  1:04               ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-19  1:27                 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-18 16:47       ` rod at hemiola.co.uk
2011-03-19  2:15         ` smiley at zenzebra.mv.com
2011-03-19  2:33           ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-19  2:47           ` cinap_lenrek at gmx.de
2011-03-19  2:53             ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-19  3:27               ` ron minnich
2011-03-19  4:17                 ` cinap_lenrek at gmx.de
2011-03-19  4:16               ` cinap_lenrek at gmx.de
2011-03-19 14:20               ` smiley at zenzebra.mv.com
2011-03-19 14:32                 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-19 16:35                   ` cinap_lenrek at gmx.de
2011-03-19 20:29                     ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-19 14:47                 ` smiley at zenzebra.mv.com
2011-03-19 15:14                   ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-20 15:42                     ` smiley at zenzebra.mv.com
2011-03-20 16:57                       ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-20 17:12                         ` Lucio De Re
2011-03-20 17:55                           ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-20 18:09                             ` Lucio De Re
2011-03-21  3:48                             ` smiley at zenzebra.mv.com
2011-03-21  3:57                               ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-18 17:33       ` erik quanstrom

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