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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sun,  6 Mar 2011 09:09:22 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] recent plan9.iso on hosted kvm/qemu
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> Hello,
>
> I'm one of the other people trying to get plan 9 on the same VPS host
> provider.  I've gotten past that hang.  Some haphazard print statements
> narrowed the hang down to the e820 init function in memory.c.  So to
> work around, setting either *noe820scan=1 or *norealmode=1 in plan9.ini
> will allow you to boot in that VPS without the aforementioned hang.
> What the actual problem is, I don't know.  I'm fast approaching the end
> of my abilities, so you'll have to pick it up from there.
> I'll know tomorrow how my install goes.
> I do know where exactly it does hang, but it's my bedtime.  I'll have to
> drawterm into my cpu server and check my notes again to post where
> exactly the boot hung.

have you tried the 9load from 9atom?  i moved the e820 scan
to before 9load switches from real mode, which should be
safer.  ftp://ftp.quanstro.net/other/^(9pxeload 9load)

- erik