From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <692d6cf5-06fa-4536-ba13-5aff3026dfbb@k6g2000prg.googlegroups.com> References: <692d6cf5-06fa-4536-ba13-5aff3026dfbb@k6g2000prg.googlegroups.com> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 09:29:46 -0200 Message-ID: From: Iruata Souza To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] New User with Problems Topicbox-Message-UUID: d0464412-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Steve 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: > > =C2=A0 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=3Df000 cx=3Df000 dx=3Dfdf7 di=3D0 ebx=3D801c esi=3D10041c > 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