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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@qua...>
Subject: venti+fossil problems on new install
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:06:43 -0500

On Fri Sep 22 15:51:32 CDT 2006, stalker@mat... 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