From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <440B0045.4070703@asgaard.homelinux.org> Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 16:14:13 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Nils_O=2E_Sel=E5sdal=22?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] "new" 9load freezes References: <66b5d154e74d96dd70ee3021c08810ad@swtch.com> In-Reply-To: <66b5d154e74d96dd70ee3021c08810ad@swtch.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0b512c0c-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Russ Cox wrote: >> It didn't. Now it has (chmod +al /n/9fat/9LOAD) >> but same result. > > did you ls -l /n/9fat/9load after doing the chmod? Yes. Checked and double checked this. Even repeated the procedure again after it failed to boot, to no avail. > try reformatting your 9fat. i'm sure the problem is > that your 9load isn't contiguous on disk. Ok. The new 3 things I did when it worked this last time was remove 2 backup kernels I had on 9fat and copy back the kernel I wanted to use. Perhaps that did some reorganizing required before I copied over the (now much smaller) 9load Will test again with the recent 9load binary on sources, but not today.