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Date: Mon,  7 May 2007 16:53:50 +1000
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
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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
> >
>