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From: "Alan C. Fisher" <acf@unixcube.org>
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	"9fans-request@9fans.net" at "Oct 2, 2011 04:04:16 pm"
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Date: Sun,  2 Oct 2011 19:55:12 +0000
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Weird plan9 Xen DonU problems
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> > When I specify the entire path to /bin/disk/fdisk, the "'./disk' file does not exist" part doesn't happen.
> > /bin/disk/fdisk: diskread 68 at 0.446:
>
> Yes, this shows that %r in print(2) can be misleading if errstr
> hasn't been cleared from a previous error.  The "file does not exist"
> message is not relevant to your disk problem.
>
> You've included lots of useful information but three more things
> might help:
>
> - what release of xen?
from "xm info" output:
version                : NetBSD 5.1 (XEN3PAE_DOM0) #0: Sun Apr 10 06:52:16 UTC 2011  acf@mercury.acfsys.net:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/XEN3PAE_DOM0
xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_32 hvm-3.0-x86_32p
> - what's in the xen config file?
kernel = "/ort/xenimages/plan9/9xeninst-pae.gz"
memory = 96
name = "plan9"
vif = [ 'mac=aa:00:00:50:02:f5, bridge=0' ]
disk = [ 'file:/ort/xenimages/plan9/plan9.img,sda,w','file:/ort/xenimages/plan9.iso,sdb,r' ]
# This is the equivalent of plan9.ini:
extra="""
nobootprompt=local!/boot/bzroot
bootfile=sd01!cdboot!bootdisk.img
"""
> - what does 'ls -l' say about the virtual disk file on the host OS?
mercury# ls -l plan9.img
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1073741824 Sep 26 08:08 plan9.img
>
>

Thanks,
Alan C. Fisher