* [9fans] recent Bell .iso images don't boot in QEMU
@ 2014-02-24 18:09 Paul Ivanov
2014-02-24 18:28 ` David du Colombier
2014-02-24 20:14 ` Alexander Kegel
0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Paul Ivanov @ 2014-02-24 18:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Hey gang,
As per the subject, I tried to start playing with plan 9, but
kept running into this error:
dosinit: can't open #S/sdC0/9fat dosinit #S/sdC0/9fat failed
and gives me a `Boot from:` prompt (which I have no idea what to do with)
My boot command was `kvm -cdrom plan9.iso -boot d -hdc
Plan9.qcow2.img`. This is with
QEMU emulator version 1.7.0 (Debian 1.7.0+dfsg-3), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
Linux HbIOTOH 3.12-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.12.9-1 (2014-02-01) x86_64 GNU/Linux
mischief on IRC suggested that I report this finding to the list.
I also saw the same error message trying to boot 9legacy.iso (but
perhaps that factoid should go to another list? forgive my
ignorance).
(I was finally able to get to Rio after getting a 9front.iso)
best,
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* Re: [9fans] recent Bell .iso images don't boot in QEMU
2014-02-24 18:09 [9fans] recent Bell .iso images don't boot in QEMU Paul Ivanov
@ 2014-02-24 18:28 ` David du Colombier
2014-02-24 20:14 ` Alexander Kegel
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: David du Colombier @ 2014-02-24 18:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> dosinit: can't open #S/sdC0/9fat dosinit #S/sdC0/9fat failed
This is a known issue in QEMU. It was introduced in QEMU 1.6.0
(August 2013). QEMU <= 1.5.3 are not affected.
I've submitted a patch in December:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-trivial/2013-12/msg00114.html
I believe the patch has been merged in the main repository,
so the current version from the Git repository should work.
Hopefully, the fix will be available as part of QEMU 1.7.1.
--
David du Colombier
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* Re: [9fans] recent Bell .iso images don't boot in QEMU
2014-02-24 18:09 [9fans] recent Bell .iso images don't boot in QEMU Paul Ivanov
2014-02-24 18:28 ` David du Colombier
@ 2014-02-24 20:14 ` Alexander Kegel
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Alexander Kegel @ 2014-02-24 20:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
I ran into the same error on an OpenBSD machine (qemu version 1.7.0),
and obviously that error is a known problem.
However, I was able to boot and install the plan9.iso after moving the
cdrom to the slave of the disk's ide.
For me, that looked like:
qemu-system-x86_64 \
-drive file=9/Plan9.qcow2.img,if=ide,index=0,media=disk \
-drive file=9/plan9.iso,if=ide,index=1,media=cdrom -boot d
Hope that helps
Paul Ivanov <pi@berkeley.edu> schrieb am Mon, 24. Feb 10:09:
> Hey gang,
> As per the subject, I tried to start playing with plan 9, but
> kept running into this error:
> dosinit: can't open #S/sdC0/9fat dosinit #S/sdC0/9fat failed
> and gives me a `Boot from:` prompt (which I have no idea what to do with)
> My boot command was `kvm -cdrom plan9.iso -boot d -hdc
> Plan9.qcow2.img`. This is with
> QEMU emulator version 1.7.0 (Debian 1.7.0+dfsg-3), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
> Linux HbIOTOH 3.12-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.12.9-1 (2014-02-01) x86_64 GNU/Linux
> mischief on IRC suggested that I report this finding to the list.
> I also saw the same error message trying to boot 9legacy.iso (but
> perhaps that factoid should go to another list? forgive my
> ignorance).
> (I was finally able to get to Rio after getting a 9front.iso)
> best,
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