Hi there,
I've recently installed the Plan 9 system from the live/install disc image
at
http://www.tip9ug.jp/mirror/plan9.iso.bz2. I have no particular use for it
but
am eager to learn about a new OS (barring Windows and UNIX/UNIX-likes).
To avoid dual-booting and in the absence of a (retired) PC to run Plan 9
on I
decided to use Microsoft Virtual PC, which I've been using for a while to
run
FreeBSD 6.2-Release without any problems.
Now, the live system boots and functions properly on VPC. The installation
also
proceeds without any errors and finishes OK. However, when I reboot the VM
to
get the installed system running it fails.
I've read all I could find, but no one seems to have had the same problem
on
VPC. I also tried the method described here:
http://groups.google.mn/group/comp.os.plan9/browse_thread/thread/aed55830f8cd4a95
Which I do not understand, by the way. It seems to be checking the fossil
filesystem for errors. In my case, the status report stopped at around 4%
of
the blocks and it would not go any further, even after 45 minutes. While
the
first 4% was checked in roughly 2 minutes.
Thanks in advance.
VM details:
Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 v6.0.156.0 on Windows XP x64
128 MB RAM allotted to the VM
8 GB VHD (tried both fixed-size and sparse options)
VHD layout: single active plan9 slice -> 9fat, nvram, fossil, swap
Boot method: Plan 9 MBR
Error details:
MBR...PBS1...
.
.
.
ELCR: 0800
128M memory: 53M kernel data, 74M user, 299M swap
root is from (tcp, local)[local!#S/sdC0/fossil]: (I accept the default)
user[none]: glenda
time...
fossil(#S/sdC0/fossil)...version...time...
init: starting /bin/rc
(long, almost 5 minute, pause here)
command 30
data f07613b0 limit f07263b0 dlen 8192 status 0 error 0
lba 231760 -> 231760, count 16 -> 16 (16)
0x00 0x07 0x59 0x89 0x03 0xE0 0x58
0x40: E307 0x42: C0000x48: 00
0x4A: 0000
fossil: diskWriteRaw failed: /dev/sdC0/fossil: score 0x00000006: date Thu
Jan
31 16:45:44 EST 2008
part=data block 6: i/o error
(the above fossil error repeats indefinitely with different score, block,
etc
numbers)
(boot process goes no further than that)
