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From: Wes <anomaly256@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Error booting from latest plan9.iso download
Date: Mon,  7 May 2007 16:53:50 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2899e2610705062353p32697498n601a7566b905b78a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2899e2610705062304k1a9ef778y79c1e6a405697aea@mail.gmail.com>

hmm, echoing machinename to /dev/sysname doesn't seem to be persistent
across reboots and adding it to termrc also doesn't seem to take.
Will I have to do this every bootup?

On 5/7/07, Wes <anomaly256@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ahh thanks, worked like a charm.
>
> Wes
>
> On 5/7/07, Federico Benavento <benavento@gmail.com> wrote:
> > hola,
> >
> > some recent changes broke the start up
> >
> > > init: starting /bin/rc
> > > bind: #k: unknown device in # filename
> >
> > diskparts tries to bind #k, but there is no k device
> >
> > > rc: null list in concatenation
> > > init: rc exit status: rc 8: error
> >
> > sysname is not set, hence you thet error
> >
> > >
> > > and then dumps me to a terminal without attempting to load rio.
> > > Is this a known issue? is there a workaround?
> > >
> > echo mymachine > /dev/sysname
> > /rc/bin/termrc
> >
> >
> > --
> > Federico G. Benavento
> >
>


  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-07  6:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-07  5:57 Wes
2007-05-07  6:02 ` Federico Benavento
2007-05-07  6:04   ` Wes
2007-05-07  6:53     ` Wes [this message]
2007-05-07  8:35       ` Martin Neubauer
2007-05-07 10:11         ` Federico Benavento
2007-05-08  0:10           ` Wes
2007-05-08  5:02             ` [9fans] Sam: m and "changes not in sequence" Yard Ape
2007-05-08 19:18               ` Micah Stetson
2007-05-09 15:18               ` rog

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