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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:25:52 +0100
From: Friedrich Psiorz <f.psiorz@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Root file system from usb-hdd on raspberry pi
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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
>