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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Panic when booting for setup
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 07:37:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b7d679a7728b93bb321b919e58ccd345@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)

> I've got the ISO-image of the actual Plan9 release from the Plan9
> homepage and now tried to install it under VMware (Linux 2.4.18).
> Therefore I configured VMware to use the ISOimage as CD-ROM drive,
> mounted the image as loop device and configured VMware to use
> 'bootdisk.img' from the CD's root as floppy disk. In VMware's 'BIOS' I

Boot the CD directly instead.

> switched Floppy A: to '2.88MB 3 1/2"', but when booting I get the
> following message:
> 
> ,---------------------------------------------------.
> | PBS...Plan 9 from Bell Labs                       |
> | ELCR: 0200                                        |
> | apm ax=f000 cx=f000 dx=40 di=ffff ebx=4c72 esi=-1 |
> | FLAGS=246 TRAP=e ECODE=2 PC=80029ddc              |
> | x, nmiesc=0x80311000                              |
> |   SI 00cef000  DI 81000000  BP 80311000           |
> |   CS 0010 DS 0008  ES 0008  FS 0008  GS 0008      |
> |   CR0 80000011 CR2 81000000 CR3 0000c000          |
> | panic: exception/interrupt 14                     |
> `---------------------------------------------------'

VMware does not boot 2.88MB floppy images from the floppy
drive.  2.88MB images only boot as part of a CD boot.

> Is there any way to install this nice OS or can anybody say, what's the
> reason for this message? 

Sure, go to the additional software page and download the preinstalled
VMware disk images.

Russ



             reply	other threads:[~2002-07-30 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-30 11:37 Russ Cox [this message]
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2002-07-15  9:31 Andreas Wiese

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