On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 11:05 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: >> MBR...PBS1...Bad Format or I/O error >> Press a key to reboot... >> >> reinstalling 9atom over the plan9.iso installation fixed everything, >> it's bootable and with netwrok support. > > that's quite wierd. can you reproduce this error?
I tried to do a fresh reinstall a few times, so in my case it's at least repeatable on a macbook. > > if so, can you try running fdisk and prep by hand > and seeing if the output makes sense? also, one > can compare the first sector of the disk with the > mbr and the first sector of the plan 9 partition > with pbs. they should be the same, modulo the > bits that disk/mbr fiddle. > you may need to give a least of commands to try as I am not sure how to do this in plan9.
