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From: Angelo Castigliola <acast2000@earthlink.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Plan9 boot error
Date: Mon,  1 Dec 2003 11:06:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <EZayb.26792$Rk5.9160@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net> (raw)

Hi,

I'm installing Plan9 on a typical old 486. When it boots I get this.
PBS...
ELCR: 0000
panic: floopyinitdev

I have made a few different boot disks on two different computers so I'm
ruling out its a bad disk.

I also tested the diskette drive and booted other boot disks and it seems to
be working fine as well.

I can not find anything on the Plan9 site about this error and the only
thing I can dig up is this posting in which the author is having the same
error on a old 486 computer.

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=plan9+floppyinitdev&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=722224617%40snellwilcox.com&rnum=1

 I emailed the author of this post to see if he ever got passed it or just
gave up.

Also I read that debugging info is written to the bootdisk. Perhaps there is
something I can use to help me get this to boot. I'm not sure if it is
getting that far in the boot process.

Thanks in advance,
Angelo Castigliola III


             reply	other threads:[~2003-12-01 11:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-01 11:06 Angelo Castigliola [this message]
2003-12-01 16:28 ` John Stalker
2003-12-01 17:29 ` John Stalker
2003-12-01 17:19 pat

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