From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: venti+fossil problems on new install
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:06:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <da866941428105e08d910e5b41b69ff3@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200609222150.ab09361@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
On Fri Sep 22 15:51:32 CDT 2006, stalker@maths.tcd.ie wrote:
> I think the question of whether the mbr is plan9 or not is a bit of a red
> herring. I have trouble even when booted from the cdrom. The specific
> error message I get about not having an mbr comes from
> /sys/lib/dist/pc/inst/partdisk on the cdrom. A quick look at the rc
> script shows that it should appear when /sys/lib/dist/pc/inst/hasmbr
> returns false. That should happen when the magic number in the last
> two bytes of the mbr is wrong, i.e. not aa55. The magic number is not
> wrong, however. The only explanation I can come up with is that the
> read of /dev/sdC0/data is failing for some reason.
why don't you try this by hand?
i have one machine that can't be booted from the cdrom and access the hd.
what i have to do is boot from the floppy, start 9660srv to mount the cd
and continue.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-22 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-21 6:50 John Stalker
2006-09-21 8:13 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-21 18:19 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-09-21 18:25 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-21 18:51 ` jmk
2006-09-21 20:27 ` C H Forsyth
2006-09-21 20:47 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-09-21 20:56 ` jmk
2006-09-21 21:08 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-09-21 21:50 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-21 22:00 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-09-21 22:16 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-21 22:31 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-09-21 22:31 ` jmk
2006-09-21 23:22 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-21 23:28 ` geoff
2006-09-21 23:47 ` geoff
2006-09-22 0:05 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-22 0:24 ` Russ Cox
2006-09-22 0:50 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-22 1:25 ` jmk
2006-09-22 7:23 ` John Stalker
2006-09-22 11:23 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-22 17:30 ` John Stalker
2006-09-22 17:45 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-22 19:48 ` John Stalker
2006-09-22 20:09 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-22 20:50 ` John Stalker
2006-09-22 21:06 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2006-09-22 0:29 ` jmk
2006-09-21 23:52 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-21 23:59 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-22 0:50 ` geoff
2006-09-22 16:39 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-23 5:24 Zoran Kolic
2006-09-23 6:51 ` John Stalker
2006-09-23 10:34 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-23 15:04 ` Russ Cox
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