[9fans] install problem

[James.Deagle@lafarge-na.com]

Greetings,

I'm a total newbie at Plan 9, but from what I've seen so far I am endlessly
intrigued. I would love to make it the native OS on an old Dell laptop, but
have encountered some issues. It works great when I run it live, but when I
try to install to the hard drive, I get the following sequence of events:

--> while copying the files to the drive, I get this message:   "Warning:
skipping bad log entry".

--> then when it runs the bootsetup stage, I choose the "Plan9" option, and
it then says "Preparing menu..." and then just returns me to the beginning
of the bootsetup routine. It's like the process becomes stuck in a loop.

--> at this point, I have sometimes tried doing a hard reboot, in which
case the MBR (from my NetBSD partition) comes up and displays Plan9 as the
second option, but when I choose it, the screen goes black and nothing
happens.

Does anyone recognize what's going wrong here? Does it sound like hardware
failure or some BIOS/software issue?

Thank you for your time and attention.

Cheers,
James



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