From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 12:44:30 -0700 From: Thomas Miller To: inyc163 Subject: Re: [9fans] Install problem on sony laptop In-Reply-To: <881bad32.0405251159.2ac784b6@posting.google.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8acfb470-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, 26 May 2004, inyc163 wrote: > Hi, > > I am having troubles installing plan9 on my pc and I hope to find help > here. > The machine is a sony vaio laptop from 1999 (model PFG), no network > card, not connected to anything. > > Here are the symptoms: > I am able to boot from the floppy, then I am in the install 'rio' > screen. > There I am able to: > configfs (I choose kfs) > partdisk (one part., I want plan9 as the only os) > prepdisk (9fat[100MB],nvram[512B],fs[5.45GB],swap[512MB]). > mountfs :=20 > I get the following message:=20 > bad nvram key > bad authentification id, domain > setting up minimal user table Please google the 9fans archive. This error allegedly is both harmless and easily fixable. > configdist > I choose local and then /dev/sdD0/data containing plan9.iso=20 > (downloaded from the distribution site). > > Then, I have the nice progress bar for the 'installing file system' > and it is _very_ slow: it took +6h to complete with the following > problem: I have a _lot_ of this: > > error reading Mj: I/O read error=20 > > over and over...and then that is basically it.=20 Bad install cd? Can you try the install cd on another machine? Try making another install cd? Bad cd drive on the laptop? > > I would be grateful if anybody knew what could be the problem (and > remedy) here. > > Thanks very much for your help. > > Sincerely, > > jj > > PS: the same laptop was okay when installing linux. > Was the linux install cd made with the same equipment and set up as whatever made the plan9 install cd? HTH, Tom