[9fans] panic floppyinitdev

[steve...@snellwilcox.com]

Hi,

Trying to install plan9 on an ancient 33Mhz 486 with 48Mbytes - to be my auth
server,
maybe this is just too low spec? However I dont think its my current problem.

On boot from ths Ed4 boot floppy I get:

PBS...
panic: floppyinitdev

The motherboard has no IDE/floppy so there is a seperate multiI/O card, I can
try replacing this,
but I thought I would ask first - what confuses me is that I cannot find this
error in the sources.

Any thoughts or is this machine for the trash? (it was freebe :-)

-Steve

[Geoff Collyer]

It's in the boot code:

: alpha; pwd
/sys/src/boot/pc
: alpha; grep -n floppyinitdev *.c
bcom.c:13: floppyinit, floppyinitdev,
devfloppy.c:204: floppyinitdev(int i, char *name)
devfloppy.c:207: panic("floppyinitdev");
load.c:13: floppyinit, floppyinitdev,

Here's the relevant function:

void
floppyinitdev(int i, char *name)
{
if(i >= fl.ndrive)
panic("floppyinitdev");
sprint(name, "fd%d", i);
}

It's apparently trying to initialise a floppy that the boot code
believes you don't have. I'd guess that the BIOS isn't aware of your
add-on floppy controller. See what your BIOS Setup screen thinks you
have. Is the add-on floppy controller at the standard address?