From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <1070FB530C37D511967A006008F6A51456BD8B@hktgv001v3> From: g.j.kuiper@kpn.com To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Fw: [9fans] some problems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:20:45 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e6e0faac-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Martin Harriss schreef in artikel <3B89644D.7B299843@princeton.edu>... > geerten kuiper wrote: > > > > The other system isn't currently running. I don't really want to use DHCP > > anyway, maybe I should edit the ndb before activating the NIC ??) > > If you're not using (or don't want to use) DHCP then you'll have to > explicitly supply the IP address of the system. Try editing termrc and > change the ipconfig line: > > ip/ipconfig ether /net/ether0 > > See the man page for ipconfig(8) for more details. Yes, I'll keep trying on this. Riight now the networking isn't urgent, but the other system is an Alpha PC164, which is supposed to run Plan9 as well. Eventually I will want to try that.. - (skipping problem 2) > > Problem 3 happens after either of the previous ones: I revert to the > > original plan9.ini, but any subsequent reboot still hangs after the line: > > ndb/dns: can't read my ip address > > Also in these cases there is a long delay two lines earlier, between: > > "kfs...boot: nop..." and "time...". > > Maybe this is caused by some corruption of the 9fat partition, because the > > only way I have found to fix this is by booting from the install floppy and > > rerunning bootsetup, thus reinitializing the 9fat partition. > > Presumably, once you get the IP address configuration sorted out, this > will go away. And if you have a stand-alone system without networking, > you shouldn't be running dns anyway. It's a bit more subtle than that I'm afraid. The problem isn't with networking: the dns line appears exactly the same during a normal boot, and dns is the last networking thing in termrc. The strange thing is that this hang occurs with exactly the same config that worked before. Only difference is that in between I had a problem (1 or 2 above, or anything else) which forced me to do an improper shutdown. This makes experimenting with the plan9.ini settings rather risky: when things go wrong it takes up to five (!) reboots just to get back to where I started. BTW, I noticed that the original plan9.ini on the install floppy is padded to exactly 512 bytes. Should I keep it that way ? Geerten