> 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 > > 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
That's pretty close to what I remember doing, but it's been several months since I did the install. > 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 I would doubt that it's got to do with the sata driver, since the actual access to the disk controller is handled by the underlying UNIX OS. That seems consistent with the error messages reporting the problem with sdE0. > 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. I think I ended up doing nearly all of it manually. I seem to remember using the install script as a guide, but issuing the commands manually. BLS
