Plan 9

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Anyone have any success in getting Plan 9 to boot?

I have tried booting directly from the CD Image, and from the Floppy Image, but both times, I make it to the bootloader, and it cannot find the filesystem.

 

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Well, I got closer. From the Plan 9 Install directions:

IDE/ATAPI drives in Plan 9 are named like sdD0, where the capital letter is C for the primary IDE interface and D for the second. The digit is 0 for the master and 1 for the slave. So if your CD-ROM is the primary slave, use sdC1:

So I got it to boot into the Installer GUI, but it Paniced:

panic: corrupt tail magic0
pool Main block f0b77718
bla bla bla......

 

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Ok got further, when asked about DMA, say no.

 

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Real close now...
It seems that plan 9's fdisk doesnt like a fixed size virtual disk. I created an expanding 320MB virtual disk, and it seems to be working.

This page will help with some of the config.

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/installation_instructions/