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From: Friedrich Psiorz <f.psiorz@gmx.de>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Root file system from usb-hdd on raspberry pi
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:25:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5151AFF0.70702@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b568647704e202436f47f82a59e89f2f@kw.quanstro.net>

Hmm, ok, I'm more confused now than before.
do I have to put all partitions there? Or just the 'plan9' partition
that fdisk created?
Where do I set the environment variable? I tried adding
sdB0parts='p1 0 38913'
to cmdline.txt, but nothing happens.

Am 26.03.2013 14:56, schrieb erik quanstrom:
> On Tue Mar 26 09:48:30 EDT 2013, f.psiorz@gmx.de wrote:
>> I recompiled the kernel as you said, and noticed that it doesn't
>> complain about missing partfs during boot anymore; however there is no
>> additional sd*, still only sdM0 and sdU0.0, which still doesn't show me
>> any partitions.
>
> i'm sorry.  the distribution assumes you are booting a pc.  i think
> you can hack around this without changing the source by
> putting the partition table information in an environment variable.
> the format is
> 	sdB0parts=a 127 128/b 129 130
> you'll need to replace a and b and the made up sector numbers with
> real values in your configuration.
>
> - erik
>




  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-26 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-26 12:51 Friedrich Psiorz
2013-03-26 13:07 ` erik quanstrom
2013-03-26 13:47   ` Friedrich Psiorz
2013-03-26 13:56     ` erik quanstrom
2013-03-26 14:25       ` Friedrich Psiorz [this message]
2013-03-26 14:35         ` erik quanstrom
2013-03-26 15:53           ` Friedrich Psiorz
2013-03-26 22:53             ` Friedrich Psiorz
2013-03-27  7:59               ` David du Colombier
2013-03-27  9:18                 ` Friedrich Psiorz
2013-03-27 14:43                   ` Richard Miller
2013-03-27 17:37                     ` Richard Miller

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