From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3e1162e61002080713l1cc90269l98fd7eff7f8f7421@mail.gmail.com> References: <692d6cf5-06fa-4536-ba13-5aff3026dfbb@k6g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <3e1162e61002080713l1cc90269l98fd7eff7f8f7421@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:47:39 -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: d068a048-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:13 PM, David Leimbach wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:34 AM, erik quanstrom > wrote: >> >> > 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? >> >> i put a modified 9load on sources /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/9load >> perhaps you would be able to download it and put it in your 9fat >> partition with the distribution cd? >> >> if not or doesn't work, send the output of lspci off line. >> the main problem is that the distribution cd is not recognizing >> your pata/sata devices. >> >> - erik >> > > If you try Erik's 9atom ISO, you may have better luck. =C2=A0It'd be nice= if the > 9load changes he made were already rolled up into the standard ISO, but I > guess they haven't made it yet? > Also there's a project to boot plan 9 from plan 9 without 9load, but I've > sort of lost track of where that is. =C2=A0I believe it was showing signs= of > great success though :-) > Dave > http://src.oitobits.net/9null may be what you've heard of. i managed to boot kernels without 9load, but now it is somehow dog slow for loading from hard disks (cds are ok). i'm working on fixing that this week. iru