Re: [9fans] Installation keyboard troubles

[sqweek <sqweek@gmail.com>]

On 1/28/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
>         if(test -f /dev/mousectl && ~ $mouseport ps2 ps2intellimouse 0 1 2 usb){
>                 if(~ $mouseport usb)
>                         usbstart
>                 if not
>                         aux/mouse $mouseport

 Inspired by this code, I tried entering some gibberish at the
mouseport prompt instead of just hitting enter, and suddenly the
keyboard worked for the install.
 So, two hours and one recovery from having my partition table crapped
on (thank you testdisk) later, I have plan9 installed. Tomorrow I'll
see if I can convince lilo to boot it and check out the usb stuff.

 But OK, the partition thing deserves some attention. I'm actually
somewhat impressed and somewhat horrified at the same time... Here was
my setup prior to the plan9 install (9039 cylinders total):
PRI1  0001-8633 Extended
PRI2  8634-8756 Linux swap
LOG5 0001-0032 Linux /boot
LOG6 0033-2465 Linux /home
LOG7 2466-4333 Linux /usr
LOG8 4334-4956 Linux /var
LOG9 4957-5081 Linux /
LOG10 5082-5144 Linux /tmp

 So I went to give plan9 about 5G of logical partition at 5145-5775
(IIRC I entered p8 as the partition name in plan9's fdisk, which may
have marked the start of my problems). This is what I ended up with:
PRI1  0001-5144 Extended
PRI2  5145-5775 Plan9
PRI3  8634-8756 Linux swap
LOG5 0001-0032 Linux /boot
LOG6 0033-2465 Linux /home

 And that's it, logical partitions 7-10 where nowhere to be found
(linux wasn't to happy when it couldn't find its root device). So
plan9 shoved the swap partition out of the way and made a new primary
for itself (this is the impressive part). Fortunately, after restoring
the missing partitions and booting back into linux it hasn't mounted
/dev/sda2 as swap and pissed all over the plan9 install. I think that
makes the score Linux: 1 Plan9: 0 sqweek: -1.

 I'm not sure whether it's the partitioning step that did me in or the
boot setup. Since I don't have windows and couldn't be assed looking
for a floppy, I hit plan9 at that step, which may have been what
motivated it to put itself on a primary partition.