Re: [9fans] booting issue

[Sam <sah@softcardsystems.com>]

Moreover, it looks like everyone who encountered this problem
just gave up.  There's a handful of unanswered posts
about this problem in the archives.  My guess is the
unwillingness to open the 9load box?

<picks up tool box and heads down the road to /sys/src>

Cheers,

Sam

On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Sam wrote:

> Hello gang,
>
> It's time to update our cpu/fs here to 4e and while reading over
> Forsyth's wiki "upgrade roadmap" if you will, I realize I need
> a kfs system running 4e.
>
> I've had a 4e install on my disk for some time, but it wouldn't
> boot and I haven't had time to poke at it.  Now is the time.  Here's
> the problem:
>
> The system is a IBM TP 600E, with a 10GB disk.  It currently
> boots windoze (for dvds) & linux.  The partitions are laid out as follows:
>
> [root@9top sah]# /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 1299 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes
>
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *         1       272   2056288+   6  FAT16
> /dev/hda2           273       681   3092040   83  Linux
> /dev/hda3           682       752    536760    5  Extended
> /dev/hda4           753      1299   4135320   39  Plan 9
> /dev/hda5           682       752    536728+  82  Linux swap
>
> ... so my question is, when I boot plan9 from lilo using the
> line:
>
> other=/dev/hda4
>         label=plan9
>         table=/dev/hda
>
> as has been suggested in the archives, why do I get this on boot
> (roughly):
>
> Loading Plan9
> PBS ... Bad format or I/O error
> Press a key to reboot
>
> and if common, how do I make it stop doing this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sam
>
>