From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
From: Angelo Castigliola <acast2000@earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <EZayb.26792$Rk5.9160@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net>
Subject: [9fans] Plan9 boot error
Date: Mon,  1 Dec 2003 11:06:35 +0000
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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