On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Steve <carrickfergu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been scouring the Interwebs and haven't been able to find much of > a solution. > > Yesterday I decided to give P9 a try and burned the ISO file available > on Plan 9's installation page here: > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/download/index.html > > It was the direct link to the CD image so none of the other choices > that are available below. > > After burning the image to CD, I restarted my computer with the > primary booting option as the CD rather than the HD. I received the > following: > > 1 FD 2.88 MB System Type (00) > PBS1... > Plan 9 from Bell Labs > ELCR: 0CA0 > pcirouting: South bridge 8086, 2812 not found > no plan.ini > cpu0: 1862 MHz P6 loop 105279 > apm ax=f000 cx=f000 dx=fdf7 di=0 ebx=801c esi=10041c > Boot devices: fd0 > boot from: > > I've checked the requirements and my PC seems to be in order there. > > I did look around and the only possible problems I could find were > that maybe since I don't have Windows it was trying to look for the > FAT file (I'm strictly an only Linux user) in which case I do not have > VMWare and I'd be curious if there is a non-DOS ISO file that could > run on a Linux only system. The only other explanations that seemed > somewhat logical were that something went wrong in the pcirouting and > I missed something in the PC requirements listed on site or the ISO > file burned to my CD is faulty. > > Thoughts? > > -E > >
the cd can't seem to find plan9.ini(8), the boot configuration file. the "boot from:" prompt is 9load(8) (the bootloader) asking you for a Plan 9 kernel to load, you may want to try fd0!dos!file where file may be 9pcf.gz, 9pcflop.gz. iru
