From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:14:04 +0100 From: "Sander van Dijk" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Booting problem after fresh install from 20080203 iso. In-Reply-To: <2f0d3cb4a030cd7a08e62b77f00d7de3@proxima.alt.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2f0d3cb4a030cd7a08e62b77f00d7de3@proxima.alt.za> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5181d6e8-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Feb 12, 2008 10:19 AM, wrote: > > 1. I zeroed the target harddisk before installation like this: "dd -if > > /dev/zero -of /dev/sdC1/data". > > You wiped out the MBR on the disk, use DOS's FDISK/MBR (sic) to > restore it, it is the least painful way to fix this type of problem, > in my experience. I'll take a look, but I'm afraid it's not going to help. I've already tried NetBSD's MBR and Plan 9's MBR (using disk/mbr), and they both don't fix the problem. I've got the feeling that the problem has something to do with the addressing that the Plan 9 partition's boot block uses (When I install /386/pbslba it works, with /386/pbs it doesn't). So why don't I just install /386/pbslba then? Because a week ago, /386/pbs was working on this machine, and now all the sudden it isn't, and I can't stand that I can't explain why... Anyway, thanks for your suggestion, I'll give it a go and see if it helps. Greetings, Sander.