On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Christian Kellermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * RyanMcCoskrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080804 10:41]: >> I have tried to install plan9 to a spare hard disk today but when I >> select options to >> from the install cd's boot menu it says that the device it is meant to >> boot from is invalid. > > Is your hard disk detected? If yes this is a common blunder of the > install script you can solve easily. Most likely it does not find > the CDROM where it expects it to be, that is as the secondary master. > In plan9 this is sdD0... You can enter different devices than that.
To be specific, sdD0!cdboot!9pccd.gz for booting the livecd, sdD0!cdboot!9pcflop.gz for installing. sdD0 is secondary master, sdC0 primary master, sdD1 secondary slave. Assuming you manage to find a kernel using one of these, for the livecd portion you'll have to make a similar substitution later on in the boot process when it is looking for the root filesystem - something like local!#S/sdD0/data. As for "easily solved", I'm not so sure. I've been able to boot the livecd with the cd drive not on secondary master, but as soon as the install script starts running it locks up. -sqweek
