i'm trying to install plan 9 under vmware (2.0.5 this time, having failed with 1.0), and it all worked fine (fossil + venti installation, 8GB disk, all defaults, rebooted fine, waited for venti to calm down, fshalt), except that when i came to reboot, i got i/o errors as it was booting - here are some messages from the console:
init: starting /bin/rc ndb/dns: can't read my ip address 2009/0728 00:53:27 err 4: write /dev/sdC0/isect offset 0xb0a4000 count 65536 buf 1dc6000 returned -1: i/o error /boot/venti: part /dev/sdC0/isect addr 0xaf24000: icachewritesect writepart: write /dev/sdC0/isect offset 0xb0a4000 count 65536 buf 1dc6000 returned -1: i/o error there was then a long pause and then i got lots and lots more i/o error messages, and it failed to boot. initially, i thought that this was a one-off accident, so i reinstalled everything from scratch... and got exactly the same errors (with different addr and offset). someone else tried almost exactly the same thing (latest iso, md5: d65178d8d8870c1488c64bc5ad8cdca8), mac os, vmware fusion 2.0.0, and had no problems. any ideas, anyone?
