> I tried to do a fresh reinstall a few times, so in my case it's at
> least repeatable on
> a macbook.

your macbook.  milage seems to vary.  frustrating to not
know on what.

> > if so, can you try running fdisk and prep by hand
> > and seeing if the output makes sense?  also, one
> > can compare the first sector of the disk with the
> > mbr and the first sector of the plan 9 partition
> > with pbs.  they should be the same, modulo the
> > bits that disk/mbr fiddle.
> >
> 
> you may need to give a least of commands to try as I am not sure
> how to do this in plan9.

start with
        disk/fdisk -p /dev/sd??/data
        disk/prep -p /dev/sd??/plan9
        dd -count 1 /dev/sd??/plan9 -count 1 | md5sum
        dd -if plan9 -count 1 | strings
        > should see something like
               3: Plan9.00
              43: CYLINDRICALFAT16   
             438: Bad format or I/O error
             463: Press a key to reboot...
            488: 9LOAD      
            500: PBS2...

you may need to open a new window to do this.

- erik

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