From: David Bulkow dbul@earthlink.net
Subject: [9fans] plan9 on vmware
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 18:54:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19991223235442.Kxpx7HKZfyZr5xwQYiDjiELcWNEq5yIkJGAbcBdKfEc@z> (raw)
I have finally managed to boot Plan9 in a VMware configuration. The problem I
ran into was the IDE driver attempting to set "read ahead mode". After the
command to set the feature, the IDE device status register indicates an error -
the error register indicates Abort. Once the abort error is posted, the driver
can no longer access the device and the boot fails.
I did not attempt to fix the problem correctly, but instead took a short cut and
commented out the call which sets read ahead mode. Performance appears
acceptable.
In boot/pc/hard.c comment out the call to hardsetbuf(). In 9/pc/devata.c
comment out the call to atafeature().
My next goal is to get ethernet working so I can have the VMware machines
participate in the rest of the Plan9 environment.
dbul@earthlink.net
next reply other threads:[~1999-12-23 23:54 UTC|newest]
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1999-12-23 23:54 David [this message]
1999-12-24 15:19 jmk
1999-12-25 20:37 David
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