Re: [9fans] Booting; NE2000 Setup

Re: [9fans] Booting; NE2000 Setup

[Russ Cox]

you've probably got an old 9fat.
this is what it should look like.

olive% cat /bin/9fat:
#!/bin/rc

rfork e
part=`{ls /dev/sd*/9fat >[2]/dev/null}
if(~ $#part 0) {
	echo 'no 9fat partition found' >[1=2]
	exit no.9fat
}

part=$part(1)

if(! test -f /srv/dos)
	dossrv >/dev/null </dev/null >[2]/dev/null

unmount /n/9fat >/dev/null >[2]/dev/null
mount -c /srv/dos /n/9fat $part
olive%

Re: [9fans] Booting; NE2000 Setup

[Bruce G. Stewart]

% 9fat:
% cd /n/9fat
% ls


Kevin McQuiggin wrote:

> Hi Group:
>
> I hope this isn't another dumb question! I can't find it referenced anywhere.
>
> I've been trying to get my NE2000 (genuine Novell) working. It is set at
> 0x300 and IRQ 5, one of the "acceptable" combinations in the Novell manual.
>
> When I boot from the HD I see a message "using sdC0!9fat!plan9.ini". The
> NE2000 gets detected at 0x300 but with IRQ 9.
>
> I want to find this plan9.ini file and add explicit config of
> "ether0=type=ne2000 port=0x300 irq=5" to try to get rid of the erroneous
> irq 9 that gets autodetected.
>
> I can't find this file on the HD. I've poked around in numerous
> directoriies. I see that there seems to be some sort of virtual partition
> in /dev/sdC0/9fat, the plan9.ini that I need to modify is in there.
>
> Is there some method of mounting this file as a FAT partition, so that I
> can edit the plan9.ini therein?
>
> As an aside the docs say that the plan9.ini on a floppy has a higher
> priority (i.e. it's searched for first) than one in a 9fat partition on the
> HD. This doesn't appear to be true in practice. Booting with a floppy
> containing my customized plan9.ini in the fd0 drive, it seems to be ignored
> and I see the "using sdC0!9fat!plan9.ini" message again.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Kevin
>
> ---
> Kevin McQuiggin VE7ZD
> mcquiggi@sfu.ca

Re: [9fans] Booting; NE2000 Setup

[chris]

Kevin, just 

  term %  9fat:

and then edit it in /n/9fat

[I don't have the machine up at the moment, so that's as close
as I can say without verifying it.]

You had the right idea, but '9fat:' comes first -- it is in
the documentation somewhere, but I had to hunt around to
find it.  The copy of plan9.ini there is the one that is
loaded at boot time, if you chose the 'plan9' method of
booting.

It is uniquely identified because it has the install URL
in it as one of the parameters -- you'll recognize it from
the one on the original install floppy.

Chris

Re: [9fans] Booting; NE2000 Setup

[pip]

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namaste% 9fat:
namaste% cd /n/9fat
namaste% lc
9load 9pcdisk plan9.ini
namaste%


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From: Kevin McQuiggin <mcquiggi@sfu.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Booting; NE2000 Setup
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 18:14:45 -0700
Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.20000708181445.00964240@192.168.246.246>

Hi Group:

I hope this isn't another dumb question! I can't find it referenced anywhere.

I've been trying to get my NE2000 (genuine Novell) working. It is set at
0x300 and IRQ 5, one of the "acceptable" combinations in the Novell manual.

When I boot from the HD I see a message "using sdC0!9fat!plan9.ini". The
NE2000 gets detected at 0x300 but with IRQ 9.

I want to find this plan9.ini file and add explicit config of
"ether0=type=ne2000 port=0x300 irq=5" to try to get rid of the erroneous
irq 9 that gets autodetected.

I can't find this file on the HD. I've poked around in numerous
directoriies. I see that there seems to be some sort of virtual partition
in /dev/sdC0/9fat, the plan9.ini that I need to modify is in there.

Is there some method of mounting this file as a FAT partition, so that I
can edit the plan9.ini therein?

As an aside the docs say that the plan9.ini on a floppy has a higher
priority (i.e. it's searched for first) than one in a 9fat partition on the
HD. This doesn't appear to be true in practice. Booting with a floppy
containing my customized plan9.ini in the fd0 drive, it seems to be ignored
and I see the "using sdC0!9fat!plan9.ini" message again.

Thanks in advance,

Kevin

---
Kevin McQuiggin VE7ZD
mcquiggi@sfu.ca

Re: [9fans] Booting; NE2000 Setup

[Kevin McQuiggin]

This worked fine, thanks!!! My NE2000 is now working!

Kevin

At 02:10 AM 7/9/00 -0400, pip@namaste.stricca.org wrote:
>namaste% 9fat:
>namaste% cd /n/9fat
>namaste% lc
>9load 9pcdisk plan9.ini
>namaste%

---
Kevin McQuiggin VE7ZD
mcquiggi@sfu.ca

[9fans] Booting; NE2000 Setup

[Kevin McQuiggin]

Hi Group:

I hope this isn't another dumb question! I can't find it referenced anywhere.

I've been trying to get my NE2000 (genuine Novell) working. It is set at
0x300 and IRQ 5, one of the "acceptable" combinations in the Novell manual.

When I boot from the HD I see a message "using sdC0!9fat!plan9.ini". The
NE2000 gets detected at 0x300 but with IRQ 9.

I want to find this plan9.ini file and add explicit config of
"ether0=type=ne2000 port=0x300 irq=5" to try to get rid of the erroneous
irq 9 that gets autodetected.

I can't find this file on the HD. I've poked around in numerous
directoriies. I see that there seems to be some sort of virtual partition
in /dev/sdC0/9fat, the plan9.ini that I need to modify is in there.

Is there some method of mounting this file as a FAT partition, so that I
can edit the plan9.ini therein?

As an aside the docs say that the plan9.ini on a floppy has a higher
priority (i.e. it's searched for first) than one in a 9fat partition on the
HD. This doesn't appear to be true in practice. Booting with a floppy
containing my customized plan9.ini in the fd0 drive, it seems to be ignored
and I see the "using sdC0!9fat!plan9.ini" message again.

Thanks in advance,

Kevin

---
Kevin McQuiggin VE7ZD
mcquiggi@sfu.ca