Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on the Acer Aspire One

2010-09-06 Thread Akshat Kumar
Just for the sake of completeness, here is some information about the disk in question: cpu% cat /dev/sdD0/ctl inquiry SSDPAMM0008G1 config 044A capabilities 2B00 dma 00550010 dmactl rwm 1 rwmctl 0 model SSDPAMM0008G1 serial CVPA8276824Q2 firmVer2.I0H featlba nop geometry 15761

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on the Acer Aspire One

2010-09-06 Thread Akshat Kumar
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 5:40 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > that doesn't look exactly like anything that plan > 9 prints.  perhaps it printed one of these two > messages? > >        (Bad format or )?I/O error >        Press a key to reboot... I don't see anything like that - perhaps there is some key

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on the Acer Aspire One

2010-09-06 Thread erik quanstrom
> (yes, disk is at sdD0, and there are not enough > BIOS options to change that) I get: > > "Press a key to reboot" that doesn't look exactly like anything that plan 9 prints. perhaps it printed one of these two messages? (Bad format or )?I/O error Press a key to reboot... if s

[9fans] Plan 9 on the Acer Aspire One

2010-09-05 Thread Akshat Kumar
I tried installing Plan 9 on the Acer Aspire One, after having checked that I can boot into it via PXE. I used erik's 9atom2.iso. However, without having touched the mbr, when trying to boot off the disk, it simply hung after BIOS POST. Then, having tried disk/mbr -m /386/mbr /dev/sdD0/data (yes,