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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Fit-PC
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:57:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <405dc979e7c6cd32b74a77f5347b5df4@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <140e7ec30802250737v773aaeedwf72f01e510bd18fb@mail.gmail.com>

>  I also tried to netboot from my existing cpu/auth/file server. The
> netboot ROM on the ethernet downloads the kernel but couldn't seem to
> find a spot in memory to put it[1], so I grabbed gPXE 0.9.3 from
> http://www.etherboot.org/ and built an ISO. The last thing I see there
> is "Booting from /386/9pc..." and then the machine reboots. I'm not
> sure if this is even getting the whole kernel... last line in
> /sys/log/ipboot is:

that went by a bit fast for me.

do you mean that you are pxe loading 9pxeload but the bios pxeloader
can't find a place for 9pxeload in memory?  or that 9pxeload loaded but
couldn't load the kernel?  the plan 9 kernel can't be pxe loaded directly.
it's too big & l.s doesn't handle real mode.

- erik


  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-25 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-25 15:37 sqweek
2008-02-25 15:57 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2008-02-25 17:05   ` sqweek
2008-02-25 16:19 ` ron minnich
2008-02-25 16:56   ` sqweek

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