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* [9fans] Ken Fileserver problem
@ 2010-01-12 19:31 Wolfgang Kunz
  2010-01-12 22:39 ` Akshat Kumar
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Wolfgang Kunz @ 2010-01-12 19:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

Hi,

because I don't have a free hard drive I try to but the file server
from floppy with the nvram file on this floppy.

This is my plan9.ini

distname=plan9
bootfile=fd0!dos!9askafs
nvr=fd!0!plan9.nvr

The boot works until:

spurious interrupt 7, lastintr0
config diag: unknown type --<d>
spurious interrupt 7, lastintr0
panic: bad bootdev:fd

I changed the mkfile for this kernel to include fd support.
Perhaps nvr on a floppy doesn't works?

Regards,
Wolfgang




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* Re: [9fans] Ken Fileserver problem
@ 2010-01-13  6:29 Wolfgang Kunz
  2010-01-13  8:51 ` Akshat Kumar
  2010-01-13 12:51 ` erik quanstrom
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 15+ messages in thread
From: Wolfgang Kunz @ 2010-01-13  6:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs

On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:39:25 +0100 Akshat Kumar
<akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net> wrote:
>>From the inspections of Cinap and I, albeit a while back,
>Erik's FS does not take NVR from floppy. That's why Erik
>suggested that you create a small 9fat partition (using
>the Plan 9 Install/Boot CD) on your primary master HDD
>and put the NVR on that. I suppose you should also be
>able to put the rest of your files in that partition and just
>boot directly from that.

Many thanks for your answer. I try to find an old IDE harddrive
or so.

Would a IDE-Flash module works too? These modules are not expensive

(20$ for 1GB). Perhaps that works for CPU server and terminal
server too? I ask because I yesterday spend some time with an usb
floppy. No
chance to get working. So I am not sure about flash drives.

Regards,
Wolfgang





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* Re: [9fans] Ken Fileserver problem
@ 2010-01-13  6:39 Wolfgang Kunz
  2010-01-13 12:31 ` erik quanstrom
  2010-01-13 12:44 ` erik quanstrom
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 15+ messages in thread
From: Wolfgang Kunz @ 2010-01-13  6:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs



On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:46:21 +0100 erik quanstrom
<quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
>On Tue Jan 12 17:41:45 EST 2010, akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net
>wrote:
>>  From the inspections of Cinap and I, albeit a while back,
>> Erik's FS does not take NVR from floppy. That's why Erik
>> suggested that you create a small 9fat partition (using
>> the Plan 9 Install/Boot CD) on your primary master HDD
>> and put the NVR on that. I suppose you should also be
>> able to put the rest of your files in that partition and just
>> boot directly from that.
>>
>>
>> Best,
>> ak
>
>working on fixing that.  i was dead sure that nobody'd
>use a floppy.  sorry about that.

I am using the floppy only for testing plan9.ini parameters.
This should be possible with qemu or other emulators too. Later
I will use an IDE disk or IDE flash disk (I would prefer the
second).
So I am not sure whether it makes sense to spend time to make this
possible. I can live wíthout the floppy support.

I would like to ask where are the differences between the original
Ken fileserver and your modifications? Many documents in the web
seems
to be made for the original fileserver. So it would be helpfull for
me to know the differences.

Regards,
Wolfgang









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* Re: [9fans] Ken Fileserver problem
@ 2010-01-13 13:54 Wolfgang Kunz
  2010-01-13 15:27 ` erik quanstrom
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Wolfgang Kunz @ 2010-01-13 13:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:31:07 +0100 erik quanstrom
<quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>> I am using the floppy only for testing plan9.ini parameters.

>i'm not sure why you are doing it this way.
> typically one puts
>the plan9.ini right on the hard drive with everything else.  i
added
>support for the partitions that plan 9 supports to ken fs.  this
>is important when sharing aoe equipment.  so it would be easy to
>create a 9fat partition with your plan9.ini and other files.  for
>example here is the configuration i had for a testing fileserver
>on a soekris box.  i had partitioned h0 as usual for a plan 9
>cpu server with a 10mb 9fat.

I found a unused harddrive and an old pc. Is only a P3 but it
should work for testing purposes. To make testing easier I will
try Xen hvm with the file server too.

Many thanks for your samples.

Regards,
Wolfgang







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* Re: [9fans] Ken Fileserver problem
@ 2010-01-13 13:56 Wolfgang Kunz
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 15+ messages in thread
From: Wolfgang Kunz @ 2010-01-13 13:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:51:51 +0100 erik quanstrom
<quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>yes.  coraid's fileserver boots from ide flash.

Sound great. I will buy a small IDE flash modul and test it.

Regards,
Wolfgang




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2010-01-12 19:31 [9fans] Ken Fileserver problem Wolfgang Kunz
2010-01-12 22:39 ` Akshat Kumar
2010-01-12 22:46   ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-12 22:50   ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-01-13  8:56     ` Akshat Kumar
2010-01-13 12:56     ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-13  6:29 Wolfgang Kunz
2010-01-13  8:51 ` Akshat Kumar
2010-01-13 12:51 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-13  6:39 Wolfgang Kunz
2010-01-13 12:31 ` erik quanstrom
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