From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Stalker To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: [9fans] Re: venti+fossil problems on new install References: <8987343c413a174c2a2ab7e0decdd93f@plan9.bell-labs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <2584.1158909784.1@maths.tcd.ie> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:23:04 +0100 Message-ID: <200609220823.aa12576@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Topicbox-Message-UUID: bf3eb950-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 It has certainly been interesting to follow how dma gets enabled, but that still leaves me quite puzzled. To recapitulate the, admittedly longwinded, description from my first post in the thread: 1) Dma is definitely off, because I type `no' when it asks whether I want it. 2) Initially the kernel (the default install cd kernel) can read and write the disk correctly, at least some of the time. I know this because disk/fdisk has correctly set up my partitions, both primary and secondary, as I can verify from FreeBSD, and disk/prep can read the disklabel which it wrote on an earlier install attempt. 3) Fmtarenas fails. 4) More puzzlingly, it seems to put the disk driver in a state where it can no longer even read the mbr. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282