From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Unable to boot from CD
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:21:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b247e66af58196c63fed4fbcbb0ed307@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120320101548.GA4011@polynum.com>
> From the above, the problem is not an installation that worked before,
> and does not anymore, since this is not a Pentium IV anymore but a
> Core 2/Xeon.
>
> Since it loads the floppy image, El Torito is supported. Now, this is
> the exploration of the mass storage that seems to pose problems.
>
> Do your disks have MBR, or GPT or something else (RAID)?
>
> Are you able to enter a specification for boot from?
the floppy loading and emulation is a bios trick. nothing to do with
the boot image itself.
the problem is that plan 9 is not detecting the cd drive. this could
be for two reasons
- the controller is just not supported. if it's not usb, i'd be surprised
if it didn't emulate ide or ahci.
- unless things have changed recently, the distribution cd won't boot
unless your cdrom is on D:. this precludes any ahci and quite a bit of
ide-emulating devices.
the 9atom cd doesn't have the second problem. it doesn't care where
the cd is configured.
hth.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-20 10:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-20 9:54 Sauparna
2012-03-20 10:15 ` tlaronde
2012-03-20 10:21 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2012-03-20 10:20 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-03-23 9:58 ` Sauparna
2012-03-23 9:58 ` Sauparna
2012-03-23 12:10 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-03-23 9:59 ` Sauparna
[not found] ` <1c246e87-181f-456f-b12d-5f5553fa0931@px4g2000pbc.googlegroups.co>
2012-03-23 10:12 ` erik quanstrom
2012-03-23 16:07 ` Sauparna
2012-03-26 9:27 ` Sauparna
2012-03-30 15:13 ` Sauparna
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