Re: [9fans] Grub Boot Problem

["Laurent Malvert" <laurent.malvert@gmail.com>]

On 3/28/06, Laurent Malvert <laurent.malvert@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/27/06, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> > > Is there some chance there is a pbs vs. pbslba issue?
> >
> > Possibly, but it's unlikely.  The install script
> > switches to pbslba if 9fat ends more than 1G
> > into the disk, and his is 40G into the disk.
> >
> > That's one thing to try though: boot from the CD,
> > draw a window, and run
> >         disk/format -b /386/pbslba /dev/sdC1/9fat
> >
> > I just changed pbs and pbslba to print PBS1... and PBS2...
> > so that we won't have to wonder about this in the future.
> >
>
> thanks for the tip, I'll try that and keep you posted.
> but...
> little problem there...
> I just remembered, I tried to use the LiveCD mode, but my mouse wasn't
> properly detected. Which is kind of strange as it is correctly
> detected when I do a standard installation.
> So it might be harder to draw a window ...
> Any shortcut for that ?
> (yeah, by total newbie on Plan 9, I meant really total newbie :-) )
>
> I'll have a look anyway.
>
> thanks

nopte, doesn't work :-(

still the same IO error.

(disk/format returned a message saying:
0 bytes used
or something alike)

didn't solve the mouse detection problem with the LiveCD either (nice
that the active window was the term with the description of Rio).

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Laurent Malvert [laurent.malvert@gmail.com]