Attempting new plan9 installation, seeing this sort of thing going on:

bios 0: drive 0x80: 80.026,361,856 bytes, type 3
biosdiskcall: int 13 op 0x42 drive 0x80 failed, ah error 0x80
sectread: bios failed to read 512 @ sector 0 of 0x80


... searching 9fans, I see that others have had same issue, recently
and in the past:

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg15073.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg14087.html
http://9fans.net/archive/2009/09/209

... etc.


So now I'm going to try installing using one of Erik's distros:

ftp://ftp.quanstro.net/other/plan9.iso.bz2
or
ftp://ftp.quanstro.net/other/9atom.iso.bz2

... but I'm wondering:  why does 9load seem to sometimes suffer
from apparent regressions in the official iso?

I'm reviewing a draft plan 9 installation howto I wrote a while back,
and I'm wondering whether the howto should just suggest that the
user obtain their iso from quanstro.net (9atom.iso.bz2 or plan9.iso.bz2)
rather than the iso from plan9.bell-labs.com?



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