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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 09:56:38 +0000
From: "Bruce G. Stewart" <bruce.g.stewart@worldnet.att.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Booting; NE2000 Setup
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% 9fat:
% cd /n/9fat
% ls


Kevin McQuiggin wrote:

> Hi Group:
>
> I hope this isn't another dumb question! I can't find it referenced anywhere.
>
> I've been trying to get my NE2000 (genuine Novell) working. It is set at
> 0x300 and IRQ 5, one of the "acceptable" combinations in the Novell manual.
>
> When I boot from the HD I see a message "using sdC0!9fat!plan9.ini". The
> NE2000 gets detected at 0x300 but with IRQ 9.
>
> I want to find this plan9.ini file and add explicit config of
> "ether0=type=ne2000 port=0x300 irq=5" to try to get rid of the erroneous
> irq 9 that gets autodetected.
>
> I can't find this file on the HD. I've poked around in numerous
> directoriies. I see that there seems to be some sort of virtual partition
> in /dev/sdC0/9fat, the plan9.ini that I need to modify is in there.
>
> Is there some method of mounting this file as a FAT partition, so that I
> can edit the plan9.ini therein?
>
> As an aside the docs say that the plan9.ini on a floppy has a higher
> priority (i.e. it's searched for first) than one in a 9fat partition on the
> HD. This doesn't appear to be true in practice. Booting with a floppy
> containing my customized plan9.ini in the fd0 drive, it seems to be ignored
> and I see the "using sdC0!9fat!plan9.ini" message again.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Kevin
>
> ---
> Kevin McQuiggin VE7ZD
> mcquiggi@sfu.ca