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[arisawa]

Hello,

Thank you for your quick reply.
 
>Are you running on a recognised CPU and the speed is correct?
CPU speed shown from 9pcfs is correct. I have added a patch by forsyth.

>the (tivial) DOS driver doesn't understand the layout of your
>floppy -this can happen if the FAT filesystem was made
>by a system we haven't catered for in the code.
The floppy is created using Plan9 pc/bootfloppy that is rewritten
following Russ.
------ pc/bootfloppy ------
#!/bin/rc

if(! ~ $#* 2) {
        echo 'usage: bootfloppy /dev/fd0disk plan9.ini'>[1=2]
        exit usage
}

if(! test -f $2) {
        echo $2 does not exist >[1=2]
        exit noplan9.ini
}

mkdir /tmp/bootfloppy.$pid
cp $2 /tmp/bootfloppy.$pid/plan9.ini
dd -bs 512 -count 1 < /dev/zero >/tmp/bootfloppy.$pid/plan9.nvr
disk/format -b /386/pbs -f -d $1 /386/9load /tmp/bootfloppy.$pid/*
rm -rf /tmp/bootfloppy.$pid
-------------------------------

9pcfs is copied using Windows98 because I have never succeeded in
copying file when I did on Plan9.

By the way, I will classify bellow what I can do or not.
1. pc/bootfloppy 		--- works fine
2. cp diskimage /dev/fd0disk	--- works ( but not fine )
3. cp file n/a:/file	--- always results in destruction


>Remake the fileserver kernel with 'chatty' defined as non-zero in
>dosfs.c and let's take a look at the output plus a hex dump of
>block 0 of the floppy.
The result is:
getclust0 @ 0
getclust seek addr 0
getclust read addr 0
can't read block
can't read boot block
panic: can't init dos dosfs on fd.


Eric said:
>well, i can say i've seen this one before.  i have two AMD K6-3-400
>boxes, both obtained at about the same time, with two different
>motherboards.

And Okamoto:
>Mime works for K6/200 is ASUS TX97-E motherboard

The PC are:
GA-5AX with K6-2/300
ASUS P5A-VM with K6-2/350
Bus clock 100MHz makes a trouble?

By the way, I tried the boot disk to a PC with celeron/466.
The result was fine. It was straight until I got the "Config:" message.

Kenji Arisawa
E-mail: arisawa@aichi-u.ac.jp

[9fans] Re:

[Eric Dorman]

From: <arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 2:07 AM


> >Remake the fileserver kernel with 'chatty' defined as non-zero in
> >dosfs.c and let's take a look at the output plus a hex dump of
> >block 0 of the floppy.
> The result is:
> getclust0 @ 0
> getclust seek addr 0
> getclust read addr 0
> can't read block
> can't read boot block
> panic: can't init dos dosfs on fd.
[xx]
Kenji Arisawa
> E-mail: arisawa@aichi-u.ac.jp

curiouser.  my usual diagnostic is not having the floppy appear
at all.  sounds like time to get back into that trench.

good luck sir!
--eric