From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] RE: stall on boot disk In-Reply-To: <50F591D39557D511B12C0090274DCEBC03AD7764@noanet03.noanet.nttdata.co.jp> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (Linux/2.2.19 (i586)) Message-Id: Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:32:17 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3e9a6620-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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