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From: hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] Cannot install 9front
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 09:37:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFSF3XMg31M1v+MLYO4XSvBC60U-5a3B_NFk7KwZWENDonXdPw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <483B2636AD23C98A63FE68C09CCDFDF0@thinktankworkspaces.com>

no. vbox is a known error source!

On 8/21/22, william@thinktankworkspaces.com
<william@thinktankworkspaces.com> wrote:
> as a litmus test you could install virtual box on the windows box and try
> the install in virtual box.
> That would validate the image is good or not.You can also utilize usb
> devices in virtualbox and
> write or cat images to a usb device where it might fail in windows you know
> cause its windows which is likely unstable to begin with. Well maybe
> virtualbox is not good either so you can try qemu.
>
> Either way you will learn more about the install with virtual box or qemu
>
>
>
> Quoth M. Osman Talayman <talayman@gmail.com>:
>> My Windows computer could not see the USB drive, so I went to disk
>> management to check. It was there. It has three partitions. Two are
>> listed as not allocated.
>> I gave the drive a drive letter, but all I can see on the drive is the
>> file "9bootfat" and a directory "efi". In that directory there is a
>> directory "boot" and inside that are two files of insignificant size
>> "bootia32.efi" and "bootx64.efi". That's it.
>> I have flashed the stick again, but I get the same result.
>> Maybe something is wrong with BelenaEtcher...
>>
>> I then tried the mashing the keys on boot. That gave me a command
>> promt. I tried writing the parameters, but boot stoped at the same
>> place as before
>>
>> /Osman
>>
>> Den lør. 20. aug. 2022 kl. 20.28 skrev <smj@9p.sdf.org>:
>> >
>> > Quoth M. Osman Talayman <talayman@gmail.com>:
>> > > I'm sorry, I am new to Plan9
>> > >
>> > > Where should I type these boot paramters? I can type at the boot
>> > > screen right after it stops booting, but nothing happens when I press
>> > > enter
>> >
>> > Boot windows on your computer and plug in the USB or SD card then you
>> > should
>> > see the FAT file system mount as 'CYLINDRICAL'.  In there you will find
>> > a
>> > plan9.ini file where you can edit and set the necessary parameters you
>> > need.
>> > You can try the individually mentioned ones in 9.5.2 or just for the
>> > ethernet
>> > and see how far you go.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-21  7:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-20 16:22 M. Osman Talayman
2022-08-20 16:28 ` Stanley Lieber
2022-08-20 16:30   ` Jacob Moody
2022-08-20 17:55     ` M. Osman Talayman
2022-08-20 18:26       ` smj
2022-08-20 18:28         ` Jacob Moody
2022-08-20 19:08         ` M. Osman Talayman
2022-08-20 20:06           ` Frank D. Engel, Jr.
2022-08-21  6:40           ` william
2022-08-21  7:37             ` hiro [this message]
2022-08-20 21:34     ` sl

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