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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] bootsetup failure on 9legacy
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 13:08:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b121ca14bc7b0fc61b1d55497accc60e@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ECC7688C1DC5E14AB1A4E5C6BEF5004A1F2912B8@exch-mbx02.email.local>

On Sun Apr 20 12:50:07 EDT 2014, j@margolius.co.uk wrote:

> During the final step of the 9legacy install on an IBM Thinkpad T60 I
> get an error saying that it fails to mount the 9fat partition and copy
> the files from the /n/newfs directory.  I did notice an earlier error
> where it failed to apply dma to my hard drive, citing an I/O error.
> An error similar to the one I get during bootsetup.  Any advice?

if possible, try to select ahci mode rather than ide mode in bios.
there are some known issues that i've fixed, but i'm not sure the fixes
have made the rounds.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-20 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-20 16:47 Jan
2014-04-20 17:08 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2014-04-20 18:11   ` [9fans] FW: " Jan
2014-04-20 18:27     ` erik quanstrom
2014-04-20 20:08       ` [9fans] FW: " Jan
2014-04-20 20:13         ` erik quanstrom
2014-04-21  7:16           ` [9fans] FW: " Jan
2014-04-21 16:55             ` erik quanstrom

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