Re: [9fans] boot disk stalls

Re: [9fans] boot disk stalls

[forsyth]

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you could try typing
	control-t control-t p
and
	control-t control-t x
to see if they reveal anything interesting.


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To: cse.psu.edu!9fans
Subject: [9fans] boot disk stalls
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:12:14 GMT
Message-ID: <PM7Z5.60808$_5.13346811@news4.rdc1.on.home.com>

My boot disk fails to boot like this:

root is from (local)[local!#f0/fd0disk]:
kfs..boot: nop...

after that it stops.   it still responds to keypresses at this point,
but refuses to boot any further.

Any thoughts?

-brent

Re: [9fans] boot disk stalls

[bcrawford]

Thats what I was thinking to at first, so i messed around with the
kernelpercent=
line in my bootsdisks plan9.ini.  This is roughly what I found:
kernelpercent= < 70 would cause the stall like i mentioned before
kernelpercent= > 80 would cause the "no physical memory" message to appear

Im not sure if all that is really relevent though since I tried the disk
on this same machine
with only 8M of ram, and got the same errors at the same place, with 20M
now, I would
presume that it should at least boot a bit further before dieing like
that.

On a related note,  is there a doc around on what kinda stuff can be put
into that
plan9.ini file?  or, more specificly, is there a way to enable some hard
disk swap space
at boot?  (if this is a memory issue, that should get me over that last
12M hurdle)

thanks,
brent

> I got this too and chalked it up to an inadequate amt of memory.  ??
>
> Sam
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Sam Hopkins
> sah@borf.com
>
> "... let us tame the savageness of man, and make
>         gentle the life of this world."
>
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, bcrawford wrote:
>
> > My boot disk fails to boot like this:
> >
> > root is from (local)[local!#f0/fd0disk]:
> > kfs..boot: nop...
> >
> > after that it stops.   it still responds to keypresses at this point,
> > but refuses to boot any further.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > -brent
> >

[9fans] boot disk stalls

[bcrawford]

My boot disk fails to boot like this:

root is from (local)[local!#f0/fd0disk]:
kfs..boot: nop...

after that it stops.   it still responds to keypresses at this point,
but refuses to boot any further.

Any thoughts?

-brent

Re: [9fans] boot disk stalls

[sah]

I got this too and chalked it up to an inadequate amt of memory.  ??

Sam

--------------------------------------------------------------
Sam Hopkins
sah@borf.com

"... let us tame the savageness of man, and make
	gentle the life of this world."


On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, bcrawford wrote:

> My boot disk fails to boot like this:
> 
> root is from (local)[local!#f0/fd0disk]:
> kfs..boot: nop...
> 
> after that it stops.   it still responds to keypresses at this point,
> but refuses to boot any further.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> -brent
>