Hello, I have a bit of free space at the beginning of my hard drive so I wanted to reinstall a native plan9 there, however installing from the iso (dled on 23/12/2008) fails for me. I get some I/O errors at the fmtfossil stage, such as those: sdE0: i/o error d0 @0 sdE0: LLBA 312,581,808 sectors
I suppose this happens because of some changes with the sata driver since I was able to install with the iso something like one year ago. I guess I could try to create an alternate iso with Erik's sdiahci but I figured I could try to install from 9vx first, if that's at all possible. What I've already tried is to get past the fmtfossil stage by setting up fossil from 9vx, but it does not seem to do the trick, since when I retry with the iso, configdist and fmtfossil are still to be done. So, that's what I did from 9vx so far: echo loop rw '#Z/dev/sda' > /dev/sdctl disk/fdisk -p /dev/sd00/data > /dev/sd00/ctl disk/prep -p /dev/sd00/plan9 > /dev/sd00/ctl fossil/flfmt /dev/sd00/fossil Is there anything preventing from completing the whole install from 9vx? If no, where can I find the basic steps to do just that? Cheers, Mathieu
