Re: [9fans] Serious Problem Running Plan 9 on Virtual PC

["Eris Discordia" <eris.discordia@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:43:36 -0000, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
wrote:

>>
>> I have noticed an eccentricity: when the live system boots, it boots
>> from
>> #S/dev/sdD0/data but the installed system boots from
>> #S/dev/sdC0/fossil. I
>> tried changing that to #S/dev/sdC0/data, but then the boot process
>> complains that it cannot find /boot/kfs and stops.
>
> that's because you boot from a (virtual?) cdrom during the install
> process.
> typically this is sdD0.  when you boot from the normal system, you boot
> from the virtual hard drive, sdC0.  the super special el torito process
> makes a cdrom appear differently when its booted from than when
> it's just accessed normally.
>
> - erik
>

I see, thanks for the explanation. I suppose then, that #S/dev/sdC0/fossil
is perfectly OK for booting from.

With this situation at hand, and the bag of nasty little tricks empty, I
think the better option is to either try another virtualization/emulation
solution (I gave up on Bochs x86 emulator just a few minutes ago, it was
too unstable and slow for my purpose) or get a used hard drive for that
little old PC sitting in the corner of my room.

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