Hi! I am not sure, and my reply can be stupid ...
Try to disconect the CD-Rom in vmware, and boot plan9 slds. > Hi 9fans! > > I downloaded the ISO image dated 18 Sep 2008. The live CD worked > beautifully, > so I decided to install under VMWare Workstation 6. Well done to the guys > who > did the new(ish?) installer, IMHO it's a big improvement over the old one. > > Anyway, after installing and rebooting, the kernel gets as far as running > init, which prints out > > init: starting /bin/rc > > and then hangs. I've taken a look at /sys/src/cmd/init.c and found that > this line gets printed from the following code near the bottom of main: > > for(;;){ > print("\ninit: starting /bin/rc\n"); > fexec(rcexec); > manual = 1; > cmd = 0; > sleep(1000); > } > > What could have gone wrong? If exec had failed, an error message would > have > been printed. The only thing I can think of is that perhaps /bin/rc is an > invalid image. > > Is there a core dump file I can examine to find out what's going wrong? > I'm > a noob, so please, put away the lighter and help me out :) > > TIA, > Ralph > > > -- Rodolfo García AKA kix http://www.kix.es/ EA4ERH (@IN80ER)