From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:27:25 +0000 To: "9fans@cse.psu.edu" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> From: "Eris Discordia" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.23 (Win32) Subject: [9fans] Serious Problem Running Plan 9 on Virtual PC Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3de11504-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hi there, I've recently installed the Plan 9 system from the live/install disc ima= ge = at http://www.tip9ug.jp/mirror/plan9.iso.bz2. I have no particular use for = it = but am eager to learn about a new OS (barring Windows and UNIX/UNIX-likes). To avoid dual-booting and in the absence of a (retired) PC to run Plan 9= = on I decided to use Microsoft Virtual PC, which I've been using for a while t= o = run FreeBSD 6.2-Release without any problems. Now, the live system boots and functions properly on VPC. The installati= on = also proceeds without any errors and finishes OK. However, when I reboot the = VM = to get the installed system running it fails. I've read all I could find, but no one seems to have had the same proble= m = on VPC. I also tried the method described here: http://groups.google.mn/group/comp.os.plan9/browse_thread/thread/aed5583= 0f8cd4a95 Which I do not understand, by the way. It seems to be checking the fossi= l filesystem for errors. In my case, the status report stopped at around 4= % = of the blocks and it would not go any further, even after 45 minutes. While= = the first 4% was checked in roughly 2 minutes. Thanks in advance. VM details: Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 v6.0.156.0 on Windows XP x64 128 MB RAM allotted to the VM 8 GB VHD (tried both fixed-size and sparse options) VHD layout: single active plan9 slice -> 9fat, nvram, fossil, swap Boot method: Plan 9 MBR Error details: MBR...PBS1... . . . ELCR: 0800 128M memory: 53M kernel data, 74M user, 299M swap root is from (tcp, local)[local!#S/sdC0/fossil]: (I accept the default) user[none]: glenda time... fossil(#S/sdC0/fossil)...version...time... init: starting /bin/rc (long, almost 5 minute, pause here) command 30 data f07613b0 limit f07263b0 dlen 8192 status 0 error 0 lba 231760 -> 231760, count 16 -> 16 (16) 0x00 0x07 0x59 0x89 0x03 0xE0 0x58 0x40: E307 0x42: C0000x48: 00 0x4A: 0000 fossil: diskWriteRaw failed: /dev/sdC0/fossil: score 0x00000006: date Th= u = Jan 31 16:45:44 EST 2008 part=3Ddata block 6: i/o error (the above fossil error repeats indefinitely with different score, block= , = etc numbers) (boot process goes no further than that)