Re: [9fans] recent plan9.iso on hosted kvm/qemu

[Jack <jack@0x6a.com>]

On 3/6/2011 8:09 AM, erik quanstrom wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm one of the other people trying to get plan 9 on the same VPS host
>> provider.  I've gotten past that hang.  Some haphazard print statements
>> narrowed the hang down to the e820 init function in memory.c.  So to
>> work around, setting either *noe820scan=1 or *norealmode=1 in plan9.ini
>> will allow you to boot in that VPS without the aforementioned hang.
>> What the actual problem is, I don't know.  I'm fast approaching the end
>> of my abilities, so you'll have to pick it up from there.
>> I'll know tomorrow how my install goes.
>> I do know where exactly it does hang, but it's my bedtime.  I'll have to
>> drawterm into my cpu server and check my notes again to post where
>> exactly the boot hung.
>>
> have you tried the 9load from 9atom?  i moved the e820 scan
> to before 9load switches from real mode, which should be
> safer.  ftp://ftp.quanstro.net/other/^(9pxeload 9load)
>
> - erik
>
>
I hadn't tried it.  I was under the impression that 9atom was tried by
the OP of this thread.  My plan today is to go through with the install
and see what happens.  I'll try your 9load next to see if I can boot
sans excess options.
The support guy set up a cron job to update the floppy image from me, so
I can try lots of different stuff (provided it fits in 1.44MB).

Thanks,
Jack