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From: <justin@anacroatan.org>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] RE: stall on boot disk
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:32:17 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E16RfgP-0003XS-00@study.anacroatan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50F591D39557D511B12C0090274DCEBC03AD7764@noanet03.noanet.nttdata.co.jp>

thanks, I can read the floppy (I'd tried that and neglected to mention it)
I tried even taking out the cdrom, still nothing. I'll try your dos boot
suggestion. again, thanks.

In article <50F591D39557D511B12C0090274DCEBC03AD7764@noanet03.noanet.nttdata.co.jp> you wrote:
>> PBS...Plan 9 from Bell Labs
>> ELCR: 0E00
>> using fd0!dos!plan9.ini
>>
>> the floppy stops spinning at that
>> point, but the in use light stays
>> on.

> Some suggestions.

> Make sure you can read the boot floppy on another machine.

> If you have two floppy drives, disable the second one, or
> better yet, remove it.

> Boot with DOS, then use ld.com to first boot 9load (you'll
> have to extract ld.com from plan9.9gz; it's in /386).

> If you have a FAT partition, put everything on the floppy to
> that FAT and do it from there, again DOS -> ld.com ->9load.
> You'll have to chage plan9.ini accordingly.

> - kazumi


  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-18 20:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-18 17:21 iwanek
2002-01-18 20:32 ` justin [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-18 10:07 [9fans] " justin
2002-01-18 15:10 ` [9fans] " Chen Xinhe

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