From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Cc: david@loesje.nl
Subject: Re: [9fans] Booting install without floppy?
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:55:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1AMs5v-000PeN-GE@t40.swtch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 Nov 2003 18:19:45 +0100." <20031120171945.GA607@wired>
> Hi. Sorry, I'm not on the list, so if anyone can help me, it would be
> great if they could CC me on the reply.
>
> I have never used plan 9 before, but I have read a bit, and alot of
> it's design decisions appeal to me. I'm trying to install it on my
> laptop (a Mitac 6120N). The problem is that the floppy drive stopped
> working a long time ago, so I can't boot from floppy. Now, I burned a
> plan 9 CD a while ago (from the plan9.iso.bz2 archive). I can boot up
> from that. But, it can't find sdD0!cdboot, so it 9load can't find the
> kernel or anything. I did some silly trick of copying the files from
> bootdisk.img from the cd onto a new DOS partition, booting from CD and
> telling it to load sdC0!dos!9pcflop.gz. That worked (couldn't find
> plan9.ini though, so it asked me for mouse/vga/etc parameters.
Maybe it did find plan9.ini -- the bootdisk.img on the CD is set up
to prompt you for those parameters.
> However, my problem seems to be that the graphics card in my laptop is
> not in the vgadb. It has an ati mach64-based card ("ATI Technologies Inc
> 3D Rage LT Pro AGP-133"). I just checked, and I found an identification
> string in the aux/vga output:
>
> At 0xC00EB: MACH64LBPCIMTSGU
>
> This string I saw in the vgadb, but at a slightly different memory
> location if I remember correctly.
>
> I'm wondering what's a decent way of booting without using floppies or
> CDs, where I can edit the vgadb before, and start the install procedure?
Assuming it did find plan9.ini, add a line
bootfile=sdC0!dos!9pcflop.gz
into the plan9.ini. Then it will figure out that
the boot floppy is on sdC0!dos, and will use the
vgadb there, if found.
Russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-20 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-20 17:19 David S. Geirsson
2003-11-20 16:55 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2003-11-20 17:34 ` mirtchov
2003-11-20 18:41 ` boyd, rounin
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