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From: "Dennis D. Jensen" <dendecjen@yahoo.dk>
Subject: Re: [9fans] booting plan9 cd on thinkpad x23
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
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Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 17:59:11 -0800
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--- John Stalker <stalker@Math.Princeton.EDU> wrote:
> You will need a
> plan9.ini which tells 9load where to find this
> kernel, but that
> is not a big problem.  It's after your kernel loads
> that the problems
> begin, since you don't have a plan9 userland.

Right.

I copied plan9-cd directly to win2k and before that to
its own partition. It turns out that win2k resides on
a fat32lba-disk, which is recognized by 9load, so I
didn't really need a particular dos-partition.

LD.COM doesn't work. I have tried many differenct
options, but it just doesn't start. I've tried booting
in dos-mode (failsafe).

When I boot from the plan9-cd it fails to find
9pcdisk, but I can tell where it resides on�the win2k,
but then it cannot find root of a kfs ("Root from:"
with default local!#S/sdC0/fs) and it cannot recognize
anything anymore, certainly not the graphic card
anyway. As you said: I cannot get past the kernel.

I've been experimenting, booting and rebooting all
afternoon and some of the night and am a little tired
now. I'll let things rest for a while unless somebody
has an idea how to continue.

> You will need
> to create
> enough of a plan9 userland under Win2k to get things
> rolling.
> This should be possible, but it may take a few tries
> to get it
> right.

The kernel seems to insist on loading a kfs-system
which I do not have yet: all things are on a
fat-partition. It looks like the classic problem of
the chicken and the egg: I cannot make any kfs before
booting plan9 which cannot boot before I have any
kfs... I don't know how to tell it where kfs (root)
is: It won't accept any of the variants of "local!..."
I've tried.

The kernel did recognize my NIC (e100/eepro100), the
cardbus and my usb! I've been reading up on the
manual-pages 9load(8) and plan9.ini(8), but I don't
know what to try next...

Thank you,
Dennis Decker Jensen


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