Re: [9fans] simple questions

Re: [9fans] simple questions

[anothy]

sounds like you built a cpu server kernel. they build
from the same source tree. try 'mk CONF=pcdisk' for
a terminal kernel with disk drivers.
ア

Re: [9fans] simple questions

[Ronald G Minnich]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 presotto@closedmind.org wrote:

> In general, it should be asking you for a password file
> regardless even if you're running a 9pc or 9pcdisk.  It just
> doesn't care what the answer is if you aren't connecting
> to any external resources.  How do you know its looking for
> an nvram file/partition?


It says 'can't open nvram' or something like that. I don't have it here at
the moment and I forget the exact wording.

Andrey has made me some recommendations for things to try. The disk I'm
using seems to be a bit frazzled so I may just upgrade first and start
over -- this is a pretty old distribution on this machine.

thanks

ron

Re: [9fans] simple questions

[presotto]

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In general, it should be asking you for a password file
regardless even if you're running a 9pc or 9pcdisk.  It just
doesn't care what the answer is if you aren't connecting
to any external resources.  How do you know its looking for
an nvram file/partition?

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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] simple questions
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 19:03:27 -0700 (MST)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201221900370.7981-100000@snaresland.acl.lanl.gov>

I am building a kernel (after a few months off) for my laptop. I was
building kernels on this machine "no problem" a few months back.

Now, when I boot the kernel, it looks for an nvram file, fails, then asks
me for a password. It's almost like it's trying to be a file server. I
have several bootfile entries in plan9.ini, so I have the old one (which
is one I built), but this is puzzling. (cpuserver is set to 0 in the
config file).

What could I have screwed up that would make this happen. Same
/sys/src/9/pc, same plan9.ini, same source tree, ... what could I have
done wrong? Or is there something outside the kernel build that could
make this happen?

thanks

ron

[9fans] simple questions

[Ronald G Minnich]

I am building a kernel (after a few months off) for my laptop. I was
building kernels on this machine "no problem" a few months back.

Now, when I boot the kernel, it looks for an nvram file, fails, then asks
me for a password. It's almost like it's trying to be a file server. I
have several bootfile entries in plan9.ini, so I have the old one (which
is one I built), but this is puzzling. (cpuserver is set to 0 in the
config file).

What could I have screwed up that would make this happen. Same
/sys/src/9/pc, same plan9.ini, same source tree, ... what could I have
done wrong? Or is there something outside the kernel build that could
make this happen?

thanks

ron