[9fans] installing from 9vx?

2008-12-31 Thread Mathieu
Hello, 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 I

Re: [9fans] installing from 9vx?

2008-12-31 Thread erik quanstrom
> 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 sector

Re: [9fans] installing from 9vx?

2008-12-31 Thread blstuart
> 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 sector

Re: [9fans] installing from 9vx?

2008-12-31 Thread Mathieu
> > 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 UN

Re: [9fans] installing from 9vx?

2008-12-31 Thread blstuart
>> > 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 >> underly

Re: [9fans] installing from 9vx?

2008-12-31 Thread erik quanstrom
> When I first got this laptop, almost a year ago, I tried > to do a native install and ran into a disk controller issue. I never > got around to trying again, chances are that this is fixed. if not, and you still care, you can send me details offline. i'd be glad to fix it. dimes to doughnuts