(I am slightly embarrassed to have made three conflicting posts in
succession. The Google-group interface was, for some reason, not sending my
posts through. So I kept trying over 12 hours, and every time I rewrote my
post. Anyway, that's not important any more.)
Before I end I must mention that
Here's 'fdisk -l'. (sdb is a usb disk I connected later.) The warnings
seems to corroborate cinap's comment, is it so?
The dump: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10125317/sda.16.dump
(dd if=/dev/sda of=sda.16.dump bs=4096 count=16)
That should be the 1st. 16 sectors I hope. I checked (dumpe2fs) the bs of
n). It must have been that grub couldn't boot the right thing.
(I'll post the outputs soon.)
-Sauparna
I tried several things, and help, again, is appreciated.
@Thiery: I could key in characters at the 'boot from' prompt, put didn't try
anything then. I have an MBR and not GPT, it's a dual-booted system with Ubuntu
having been installed second, after Windows. I used to boot through GRUB, as is
t
I tried several things and help, again, is appreciated.
@erik, @cinap:
9front and 9atom booted properly. 9atom live-boot option didn't work,
but installation proceeded to [mountdist]. At that point I couldn't
figure out a way to point it correctly to the distribution, my linux
partition, though su
I tried several things, and help, again, will be appreciated. With the little
knowledge I have I will try to explain the procedures.
@Thierry: I have a MBR, and not GPT. I have Windows and Linux (Ubuntu) and
dual-boot through GRUB; as is the standard setup found when Ubuntu is installed
second
Previously I had a working Plan9 (3rd. Ed.) installation on my desktop, which
had Pentium 4 processor. I am unable to boot from the same Plan9 CD, and even
the 4th. Ed. CD, on my laptop. I get this error message:
PBS1...
Plan9 from Bell Labs
ELCR: 0C98
pcirouting: South bridge 8086, 2919 not fou
