Re: [9fans] fossil:diskWriteRawFailed error with Plan 9 on

["Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>]

relax

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Eris Discordia
<eris.discordia@gmail.com> wrote:
>> dispite the gratitous ad hominem, i'm sorry that this is difficult.
>
> Don't take it seriously, erik. Even if you do, what's wrong with being a
> cold, insensitive, unsympathetic computer wizard (that's what high IQ and
> low EQ means)? There are a number of them out there, in very nice positions,
> exalted by many admirers from around the world. It's a good way of being.
>
> --On Saturday, October 11, 2008 10:43 AM -0400 erik quanstrom
> <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>
>>>> can you please point me to the place where i can download the source of
>>>> plan 9. Also, how to rebuild the code once i get it.
>>>
>>> If you want to try Erik's patch, you could install plan 9 on real
>>> hardware or under a different virtual machine like qemu or vmware, and
>>> follow the instructions at
>>> http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Compiling_kernels/
>>>
>>> Or just keep using the other VM and give up on Microsoft Virtual PC
>>> for the moment.
>>
>> this is a repeat of a private email; i didn't think
>> this was going to be generally interesting.
>>
>> option 1:
>> assuming the live cd boots, there is a test kernel on sources
>> in my contrib area which can be put into 9fat without booting
>> from the virtual hard drive.
>>
>>        open a new window in the installer.  i'll assume that /dev/sdC0
>>        is your virtual hard drive.
>>
>>        ; cd /dev/sdC0
>>        ; disk/fdisk -p data>ctl ; disk/prep -p plan9>ctl
>>        ; 9fat:
>>        ; cd /n/9fat:
>>        ; 9fs sources
>>        ; cp /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/9pcf.gz 9pcide.gz
>>        now edit plan9.ini.  add a second bootfile line like:
>>        bootfile=sdC0!9fat!9pcide.gz
>>
>> now reboot and hope. :-)
>>
>> (for those following along at home, the sdata.c i'm working from
>> is in /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/sdata.c.)
>>
>> option 2:
>> install onto aoe storage.  vblade
>>
>>  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=130453&package_id=
>> 143790 runs on linux, if you have a linux machine.  or perhaps you could
>> run it on virtual pc.  (there's a version for plan 9, too.)
>> you'll need to put these lines into your plan9.ini
>>
>>        # assuming that your vblade is running as 42.0
>>        # and you are using ether0 and ether1 to serve aoe:
>>
>>        aoeif=ether0 ether1
>>        aoedev=f!#æ/aoe/42.0
>>
>> (in any event, there are many ways to try to get this working.
>> e.g. if you had a seperate machine as a fileserver, you could boot
>> from it and be more free to experiment.)
>>
>> dispite the gratitous ad hominem, i'm sorry that this is difficult.
>> unfortunately, i don't have a windows box or virtual pc.  thus
>> i can't properly test the change, even though it seems required
>> by the ata spec.
>>
>> even if i did, it's presumptious to assume that the folks at the
>> labs have the time to review changes and incorporate them.
>>
>> - erik
>>
>>
>
>



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Federico G. Benavento