From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 19:48:50 -0600 From: Andrey To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: [9fans] My share of plan9 problems :) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Topicbox-Message-UUID: b5196d48-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 So, I am having a bit of trouble with installing the distribution... Here is the brief: Using 2 hard drives: a 4 gig one containing FreeBSD and a 850 meg one dedicated to plan 9 (ugh... AMD k6/2-400... PC architecture).. I have downloaded several different floppies with configurations that may suit my monitor, and most of them have been siccesfull in booting, however they never go beyond 'boot from: fd0 sdC0' unless the machine has just been rebooted using the 'reset' button... I guess my second drive is not recognized by the bootloader... If the machine has been hot-booted with the reset button, the installation routine will start (in 1024x768 mode) and it will continue flawlessly until configuring the bootloader after all has been installed. Setting the boot to 'plan9' (which is the second disk) prints an error message that this disk can not be booted, and will not produce anything beyond 'non-system disk or disk error' on bootup. A boot floppy will not recognise sdC1 and if I put the HDD as the master one it will print the 'boot from:' and upon executing "fd0!9pcflop.gz' it will complain about not having a FAT partition to read from (or something to that effect)... I have managed to install plan9 about 5 times so far (ugh :) but am still unable to boot it after a succesfull installation... Any comments will be appreciated... if you have the time :) Thanx: Andrey PS: sorry if it sounds confusing, I simply tried everything I could think of before writing this email and the information gathered is too complex to be laid out properly in an e-mail :)