From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: quanstro@quanstro.net (erik quanstrom) Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 10:32:21 -0400 Subject: [9fans] New venti install won't boot after 05:00 crash In-Reply-To: <864o6zur7k.fsf@cmarib.ramside> References: <78a8a30056dea494c98ebd88b9d4b744@gmx.de> <864o6zur7k.fsf@cmarib.ramside> Message-ID: Topicbox-Message-UUID: bd57cc1c-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sat Mar 19 10:22:11 EDT 2011, smiley at zenzebra.mv.com wrote: > In the interest of full disclosure, that "dd" was done under Linux. It > was a "dd if=" rather than a "dd -if". However, I just re-ran the dd > from the Plan 9 installer, using the Plan 9 dd to read the entire > partition and zero the entire partition. Neither the read nor write > returned any errors. This is with NO lba48always in cat /dev/sdC0/ctl. > Has anyone looked at the "prep" layout in the install transcript I > bastebin'd? Does it look sane? at first glance, it does. if the lba48 problem is it, then it won't kick in until sector 268435454 + 1. you didn't send the contents of /dev/sdC0/ctl, so it's hard to know where plan 9 partitions ended up. - erik