On Fri Sep 22 15:51:32 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think the question of whether the mbr is plan9 or not is a bit of a red > herring. I have trouble even when booted from the cdrom. The specific > error message I get about not having an mbr comes from > /sys/lib/dist/pc/inst/partdisk on the cdrom. A quick look at the rc > script shows that it should appear when /sys/lib/dist/pc/inst/hasmbr > returns false. That should happen when the magic number in the last > two bytes of the mbr is wrong, i.e. not aa55. The magic number is not > wrong, however. The only explanation I can come up with is that the > read of /dev/sdC0/data is failing for some reason.
why don't you try this by hand? i have one machine that can't be booted from the cdrom and access the hd. what i have to do is boot from the floppy, start 9660srv to mount the cd and continue. - erik
