Re: [9fans] Cannot boot plan9

[Szymon Olewniczak <szymon.olewniczak@rid.pl>]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 12:14:17PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
> On Sun Mar 16 12:06:39 EDT 2014, szymon.olewniczak@rid.pl wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > today I've tried to boot plan9 on my computer. Sadly withou a success.
> > I'm attaching screenshot of my computer after typing ctrl+t ctrl+t p.
> >
> > Do you know is going on? How can I fix it? I woud like to run Plan 9
> > before 21.03 in order to see how it's working and put an application to some
> > of the GSoC project :)
>
> well, it looks like it can't find anything in #S, which is the generic disk
> driver.  this means your hardware wasn't recognized.  if you can boot
> the 9atom usb installer, even if you can't see the disks, maybe we can
> see what's wrong.  i'd like to see the output of "pci|grep disk".
Here it is:

0.6.0 disk 01.01.8a 10de/03ec 0 4:0000ffa1 16
0.8.0 disk 01.01.85 10de/03f6 5 0:0000d401 16 1:0000d081 16 2:0000d001
16 3:0000cc01 16 4:0000c881 16 5:deefc000 4096

But I have no idea what does it means. I hope you will know.

> the usb installer is here
>
> 	http://ftp.9atom.org/other/+usbinstamd64.bz2
>
> just bunzip2 the image, and dd the result to a usb stick that's at least
> 512MB.
Wow! It's working! What is the diffirence between standard CD version and this one?

> this information should give enough information to yield a patch
> to the distribution, and will satisfy gsoc by itself.
Do you meen that I can create a driver to my hd as the gosc project?

BR,
Szymon