From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: john@jfloren.net (John Floren) Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:33:33 -0700 Subject: [9fans] New venti install won't boot after 05:00 crash In-Reply-To: References: <86ipvhs0q9.fsf@cmarib.ramside> <92523386d00248deec230112db631be5@brasstown.quanstro.net> <868vwcbfc8.fsf@cmarib.ramside> Message-ID: Topicbox-Message-UUID: bcd8f586-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Jacob Todd 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