From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 20:30:45 -0400 From: Eldanen To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Problems Booting Plan9 CD In-Reply-To: <83C5C00A-2076-4B5E-B796-C28472DB9FEF@utopian.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_16676_19609136.1193963445996" References: <20071101232609.8A2185C066@mail.cse.psu.edu> <83C5C00A-2076-4B5E-B796-C28472DB9FEF@utopian.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: e5a0121e-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ------=_Part_16676_19609136.1193963445996 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline The non-existant floppy is gone from the BIOS. It was set to off before I started trying to boot the plan9 CD. On 11/1/07, Joshua Wood wrote: > > > > Hehe. There is no floppy drive. But thanks for all the help > > you've given > > me. > > In my experience, that is precisely the reason why you should follow > erik's suggestion and disable that non-existent floppy in bios. > > More to the point, you can boot with an older iso image; I've been > using my 10/12 burn for exactly that purpose. Once you have a plan 9 > system up, you have access to pull(1) and sourcesdump/yyyy/mmdd/ > plan9/386/9load to do your testing of the (several, lately) new 9load > on your hardware, and a bootable cd with a known-good 9load when you > fail. > > My follow-on question for the list based on my experience with that > general procedure is: Is there anywhere to get an old iso image for > someone in Eldanen's situation? (That is, neither an old burn to fall > back on nor an existing plan9 machine to use to get an old 9load from > sourcesdump to make a bootstrap for his new machine?) > > -- > josh > ------=_Part_16676_19609136.1193963445996 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline The non-existant floppy is gone from the BIOS.  It was set to off before I started trying to boot the plan9 CD.

On 11/1/07, Joshua Wood < josh@utopian.net> wrote:

> Hehe.  There is no floppy drive.  But thanks for all the help
> you've given
> me.

In my experience, that is precisely the reason why you should follow
erik's suggestion and disable that non-existent floppy in bios.

More to the point, you can boot with an older iso image; I've been
using my 10/12 burn for exactly that purpose. Once you have a plan 9
system up, you have access to pull(1) and sourcesdump/yyyy/mmdd/
plan9/386/9load to do your testing of the (several, lately) new 9load
on your hardware, and a bootable cd with a known-good 9load when you
fail.

My follow-on question for the list based on my experience with that
general procedure is: Is there anywhere to get an old iso image for
someone in Eldanen's situation? (That is, neither an old burn to fall
back on nor an existing plan9 machine to use to get an old 9load from
sourcesdump to make a bootstrap for his new machine?)

--
josh

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