Re: [9fans] bootable cd images

[jc@pouce.org]

Hello,

i'm new to plan9, i just installed it yesterday on my old k6II.

Although i could boot from the cd, i still needed a floppy disk to launch
the installation...

This is what i get after booting from the cd :
(setup : 1 ide hd as master, cdrom as slave)
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(sniped...)
found partion sdC1!cdboot; 34164+1440
Boot devices: fd0
boot from:
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Weird... no sdC1 suggested ?


I tried to issue this :
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boot from: sdC1!cdboot!plan9.ini
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I got:

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found PLAN9     .INI attr 0x0 start 0x723 len 327
.bad kernel format
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Though I managed to boot/install from the cd with a boot disk already in
fd0... (what's the point ?...)

May be I encountered this problem because, as i'm new to plan9, I missed
something, may be I issued the wrong command... Or just simply I
misunderstood something...
Probably the latter because when i issued (booting from cd, and inserting
floppy at prompt before issuing the command) :
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boot from: fd0!dos!plan9.ini
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i get something similar :
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found PLAN9    .INI attr 0x0 start 0x9e1 len 512
.bad kernel format
--------------------------------------------


But I eventually managed to install plan9 with not much problem, the
documentation/menu is clear.

(PS: i also had to put my cdrom on the same cable as my ide hd to get my
cdrom recognized...but this is another problem.)

Cheers,
JCC.

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Russ Cox wrote:

> the current plan 9 cd image (installed
> an hour or two ago) is bootable.  a menu
> asks whether you want to boot the equivalent
> of the install floppy or simply to boot plan 9
> using the cd as the root file system.
>
> booting entirely off cd works just fine.
>
> i haven't tried doing an install from it,
> but it's the same kernel that the install
> disk uses, so i expect it to work (famous
> last words).
>
> thanks to forsyth and jmk for figuring out
> the hard parts.
>
> russ