Re: [9fans] partdisk fails in install

["EBo" <ebo@sandien.com>]

It will have to be later this afternoon/night.  I thwacked the disk with
gparted and gave it a couple of partitions, and am installing it on that
machine at the moment.  I at least want to see how far this install gets
before thwacking the disk again, and in a few I have to pick someone up at the
airport...

I will also go through the routine with all my machines and collate the info.

Thanks for the offer.  I look forward to sorting this out a little later.

  EBo --


erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> said:

> > I'm having trouble installing on a clean disk with the latest iso (2010/3/12).
> >
> > I first removed all the partition info (using fdisk on a gparted liveCD) so
> > that the disk was clear.  I then booted Plan9, and when it asked to install a
> > MBR, it returned an error that disk/fdisk failed.  This then caused parted to
> > restart in a loop...  Unfortunately it did not give me much additional info.
>
> if you could send me some information (off list),
> i'll take a look at this.
> 1.  the exact error message that you see.
> 2.  at the installer prompt, after then fdisk error,
> the output of "!cat /dev/kmesg".
> 3.  the output of lspci -n (or similar) from linux
> (or whatever).
>
> - erik
>



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