[9fans] boot from: in install

[9fans] boot from: in install

[Joel Salomon]

I am trying to install Plan9 by booting from the cd. After PBS etc, I
get a prompt boot from: _without_ the default. The choices are sdC3
(my cd rom drive) and fd0 (presumably the boot disk image). Neither
will work as such, the system wants device!file format. Previous
installs only found one boot file and gave a sensible default. What do
I enter?
Joel

Re: [9fans] boot from: in install

[Russ Cox]

Try

	sdC3!cdboot!9pccd.gz

Do you really have four primary IDE drives?
How did you pull that off?

Russ

Re: [9fans] boot from: in install

[Jim Choate]

On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Russ Cox wrote:

> Try
>
> 	sdC3!cdboot!9pccd.gz
>
> Do you really have four primary IDE drives?
> How did you pull that off?

I have a Soryu Dragon mbrd. that has 4 EIDE
ctllrs. Very nice mbrd. Haven't gotten around
to Plan 9 on it yet...Win & Linux work fine.


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Re: [9fans] boot from: in install

[Russ Cox]

If you had four IDE controllers, they'd be
named sdC, sdD, sdE, and sdF.  That's different
from having four drives on the first controller,
which is how you get up to sdC3.

Russ

Re: [9fans] boot from: in install

[Jim Choate]

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Russ Cox wrote:

> If you had four IDE controllers, they'd be
> named sdC, sdD, sdE, and sdF.  That's different
> from having four drives on the first controller,
> which is how you get up to sdC3.

True enough, but there would still be only one (1)
primary drive, the rest would be slaves. That was
the technical point I was dancing around with the
wording of the previous statement.

The question is not how did you get four primary
drives but how did you get three slaves....


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