From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: erik quanstrom Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 11:42:15 -0400 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] read: i/o error: at installation In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: d0cac29a-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 try booting linux to see if you can write to the hd. the output of lspci -vn would be helpful if you find the disk to be good. if this is an ich5 or ich6 motherboard with sata+pata (that would be all of 'em), you're going to have trouble with sata drives. the port configuration is nonstandard and the ide driver doesn't know about it. if you do have such a system and you do have an ide-only system, there's probablly a ide-only bios option that may let you boot. - erik On Sat Oct 21 14:14:15 EDT 2006, yosyp.list@gmail.com wrote: > I'm trying to install Plan9 on a computer (256MB ram, Intel Celeron 2.00Ghz, > 160GB hard disk). At the installation proccess, I go up to part disk. Then > it shows me that it made the new Plan9 partition (2.45GB), so I type 'w' and > 'q'. Then I get this: > > Preparing menu... read: i/o error > > and it prompts me again to partdisk, and it never ends. I really don't think > that this is the hard disks problem, it's a barely used 160GB Maxtor drive. > Has anyone had any problems similar to this? Could it be because some of the > hardware? (Unlikely, but...) > > Regards, > Yosyp