From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ron minnich To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: [9fans] a problem I don't understand on a reinstall Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 20:50:10 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6fc0843a-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I had a T21, with partitions: 9fat fs swap I booted the install cd, and using prepdisk I delete swap and fs, then added fossil arenas0 arenas1 isect0 isect1 swap Then I installed. Once done, it would not boot. Plan9.ini was rewritten by the install, but set up with the local file system as local!#S/sdC0/fs, not local!#S/sdC0/fossil. Booted CD, ran 9fat:, changed it to fossil, instead of fs, it still wouldn't boot. 9load complains that it can't find any partitions other than 9fat. reinstalled. No good. On the reinstall the 9fat was not updated, so still had the identical plan9.ini. Reinstalled, but this time using prep I deleted all partitions, including 9fat, then added them back, resizing them for good measure. Still failed to boot, it's still trying to find 'fs', not 'fossil'. ARG! Found on booting cdrom to look around that 9fat, though resized, was unchanged: plan9.ini was the same as before the delete all partitions, reallocate all partitions step. Well, what's going on here? how do I get this cd to wipe everything down to completely clean state when it installs? Should I run fdisk/mbr from the boot cd, then try it? It's as though too much state is being saved in the boot info somewhere, across installs. Is it not setting up 9load correctly? Is it not replacing 9load with a new one? ron