Re: [9fans] New User with Problems

[Iruata Souza <iru.muzgo@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Steve <carrickfergus88@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been scouring the Interwebs and haven't been able to find much of
> a solution.
>
> Yesterday I decided to give P9 a try and burned the ISO file available
> on Plan 9's installation page here:
> http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/download/index.html
>
> It was the direct link to the CD image so none of the other choices
> that are available below.
>
> After burning the image to CD, I restarted my computer with the
> primary booting option as the CD rather than the HD. I received the
> following:
>
>   1 FD 2.88 MB System Type (00)
> PBS1...
> Plan 9 from Bell Labs
> ELCR: 0CA0
> pcirouting: South bridge 8086, 2812 not found
> no plan.ini
> cpu0: 1862 MHz P6 loop 105279
> apm ax=f000 cx=f000 dx=fdf7 di=0 ebx=801c esi=10041c
> Boot devices: fd0
> boot from:
>
> I've checked the requirements and my PC seems to be in order there.
>
> I did look around and the only possible problems I could find were
> that maybe since I don't have Windows it was trying to look for the
> FAT file (I'm strictly an only Linux user) in which case I do not have
> VMWare and I'd be curious if there is a non-DOS ISO file that could
> run on a Linux only system. The only other explanations that seemed
> somewhat logical were that something went wrong in the pcirouting and
> I missed something in the PC requirements listed on site or the ISO
> file burned to my CD is faulty.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -E
>
>

the cd can't seem to find plan9.ini(8), the boot configuration file.
the "boot from:" prompt is 9load(8) (the bootloader) asking you for a
Plan 9 kernel to load, you may want to try fd0!dos!file where file may
be 9pcf.gz, 9pcflop.gz.

iru