> Ok, here's the deal. > > I've made a floppy boot, as the BIOS doesn't have a cd boot option, > it's either floppy or hard drive. > When I boot from floppy it detects it as fd0 which is expected, but > that's the only thing it sees. > I tried every combination of xx! that I could and nothing works. > I tried putting the iso on the FAT partition, still a no go. > > I know the comuter works, because I've installed both windows 98SE, > and linux (at different times) > > If anyone has any ideas it would be much appreciated. I use to have > plan9 on a older computer years ago, and wanna get it on this brick of > a laptop.
the output of lspci -nk would be useful. you can use this yourself to check /sys/src/9/pc/sdata.c and /sys/src/boot/pc/sdata.c for the ide devices on this machine. my guess is that they're not listed. - erik
