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    powered by grep(1)    From: Thomas Miller <tom@ins...>
Subject: Install problem on sony laptop
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 12:44:30 -0700 (PDT)


On Wed, 26 May 2004, inyc163 wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am having troubles installing plan9 on my pc and I hope to find help
> here.
> The machine is a sony vaio laptop from 1999 (model PFG), no network
> card, not connected to anything.
> 
> Here are the symptoms:
> I am able to boot from the floppy, then I am in the install 'rio'
> screen.
> There I am able to:
>     configfs (I choose kfs)
>     partdisk (one part., I want plan9 as the only os)
>     prepdisk (9fat[100MB],nvram[512B],fs[5.45GB],swap[512MB]).
>     mountfs :=20
>         I get the following message:=20
>             bad nvram key
>             bad authentification id, domain
>             setting up minimal user table

Please google the 9fans archive.  This error 
allegedly is both harmless and easily fixable. 

>     configdist
>         I choose local and then /dev/sdD0/data containing plan9.iso=20
>         (downloaded from the distribution site).
> 
> Then, I have the nice progress bar for the 'installing file system'
> and it is _very_ slow: it took +6h to complete with the following
> problem: I have a _lot_ of this:
> 
>     error reading Mj: I/O read error=20
> 
> over and over...and then that is basically it.=20

Bad install cd? 

Can you try the install cd on another machine? 

Try making another install cd? 

Bad cd drive on the laptop? 

> 
> I would be grateful if anybody knew what could be the problem (and
> remedy) here.
> 
> Thanks very much for your help.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> jj
> 
> PS: the same laptop was okay when installing linux.
> 

Was the linux install cd made with the same 
equipment and set up as whatever made the 
plan9 install cd? 

HTH,

Tom