From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com To: tjolson@bellatlantic.net, 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Can't boot after R4 install MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-dzwzzxsfzlggokughnuqzgjznr" Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 07:59:22 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 865e8bd0-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-dzwzzxsfzlggokughnuqzgjznr Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit sounds like we're screwing up reading the keyboard, i.e., we're seeing a continuous stream of characters in 9load. It also seems like we're finding a different plan9.ini than you included in the message. The Selection: prompt appears only if you have a [menu] directive in the plan9.ini. I forget the exact ordering of where we get plan9.ini from these days. I do know that we look first on the floppy, and then in some order on the DOS partition for the hard disk and in the 9fat partition on the hard disk. Do you have another plan9.ini hiding somewhere from a previous version of plan 9? --upas-dzwzzxsfzlggokughnuqzgjznr Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from plan9.cs.bell-labs.com ([135.104.9.2]) by plan9; Fri May 3 06:49:14 EDT 2002 Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by plan9; Fri May 3 06:49:13 EDT 2002 Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.4.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id B5B8B199E8; Fri, 3 May 2002 06:49:06 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: from mercury.bath.ac.uk (mercury.bath.ac.uk [138.38.32.81]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 310F5199E3 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Fri, 3 May 2002 06:48:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from news by mercury.bath.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 173aSr-00001N-00 for 9fans@cse.psu.edu; Fri, 03 May 2002 11:39:01 +0100 Received: from GATEWAY by bath.ac.uk with netnews for 9fans@cse.psu.edu (9fans@cse.psu.edu) To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Tom Olson Message-ID: <1260c5bb.0205021655.7d5d8207@posting.google.com> Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [9fans] Can't boot after R4 install Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 10:37:57 GMT I had R3 installed in a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop. When I created a floppy and booted it, I got a continous stream of console messages of the format: "Selection: line to long" right after 2 "pc routing" messages. I got a new floppy, rewrote the install floppy, booted fine. Completed the install, made a boot disk, and set the system to boot plan9 from hard drive. When I reooted, I got the same messages as above, either booting from the hard drive or boot disk. Has anyone seen this before? Any suggestions? I suspected my plan9.ini file, but did not see anything very obvious. *nomp=1 distname=plan9 partition=new nobootprompt=local!/bzroot #console=0 ether0=type=EC2T monitor=xga vgasize=1024x768x8 mouseport=ps2 audio0=type=ess1688 bootfile=fd0!dos!9pcflop.gz installurl=http://204.178.31.2/magic/9down4e/compressed/1020373303.h9p3adctpaegjeseyn8ywqcgctzue69d --upas-dzwzzxsfzlggokughnuqzgjznr--