From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4D751EBA.9080605@0x6a.com> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 12:06:50 -0600 From: Jack Norton User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <10045_2495_16663b8cca278b776372dbc44b36387b57580924_6@arpnetworks.tenderapp> <10045_2495_16663b8cca278b776372dbc44b36387b57580924_5@arpnetworks.tenderapp> <10045_2495_16663b8cca278b776372dbc44b36387b57580924_4@arpnetworks.tenderapp> <10045_2495_16663b8cca278b776372dbc44b36387b57580924_3@arpnetworks.tenderapp> <10045_2495_16663b8cca278b776372dbc44b36387b57580924_2@arpnetworks.tenderapp> <10045_2495_16663b8cca278b776372dbc44b36387b57580924_7@arpnetwork> <288e83061e963edf1c2aa45b26729934@EXAMPLE> <4aac3b8993d7aa7085545f30b037> <98783fe93adc0829ac2f9c12d1d22103@brasstown.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <98783fe93adc0829ac2f9c12d1d22103@brasstown.quanstro.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] recent plan9.iso on hosted kvm/qemu Topicbox-Message-UUID: b8699e42-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 erik quanstrom wrote: > On Sun Mar 6 22:33:33 EST 2011, stanley.lieber@gmail.com wrote: >>> 9atom's 9load prints "%d e820 entries" on boot. is that number 0? >> found 7 e8s0 entries >> >> Then it freezes. > > it's not the e820 code, then. it's either falling over initializing the > console, or it's falling over probing devices for the .ini file. > > after e820, 9load starts up the console and probes devices looking > for a .ini file. > > i would think the odds are good that 9load has found an i/o port > that should not be touched. devices are probed in this order > floppy. ether, cd, sd. > > i don't really have a kvm setup, but if it's possible, you might try > removing devices (espeically ethernet devices) from a copy of 9load > until you find something that boots, then add 'em back in till it doesn't. > > sounds tedious, no? :-) > > - erik > Well I've got some other observations of interest. As I mentioned, I installed with *noe820scan=1 successfully. I was in the middle of configuring and playing around when I realized I had no ethernet car. bind -a '#l' /dev returned 'no free devices'. The vps has an e1000 card (PRO/1000) plugged into it, so I naively put "ether0=type=igbe" in plan9.ini. Now it hangs right where 9load would normally say "no ethernet devices found" or something similar. How odd. -Jack