Re: [9fans] iso experiment

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> Your iso image boots OK, however the kernel still doesn't see PATA.

mine does.  so we have to figure out what we're doing wrong with
your hardware, or decide that there's something wrong.

> The iso boots off PATA, 9load finds and reads plan9.ini, it fails
> to find the kernel (because it is looking on sdD0), if I type the
> kernel path in by hand then it loads the kernel as you would expect.

the debug kernel doesn't have the modified plan9.ini.  i was too lazy
to recreate it.

> as an aside, I am just trying a hack to kbd.c to reset numloc and
> speed up the keyboard repeat speed at powerup as I have a nice small
> keyboard but it always powers up with numloc enabled on plan9 and I
> cannot turn it off (teh numlock key has no effect).

ah, yes.  i have a fix for that from the sr kernel.  unfortunately, i need
to extract the part of that fix that hammers the mouse port.  sam really
tore his hair out on that one.

give me a bit, if you don't mind.  i'd send you a good model m keyboard,
but shipping might be a bit much.

- erik