From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Huntsman To: "9fans@9fans.net" <9fans@9fans.net> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 06:33:59 +0000 Message-ID: <5782C16A7C920E469B74E11B5608B8E733F6DE65@Kriegler.ntdom.cupdx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [9fans] ppxeload nix Topicbox-Message-UUID: 151b71c8-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I've downloaded the nix bits from http://code.google.com/p/nix-os/ and comp= iled it under 9vx on OSX, but I'm having some trouble getting the resultant= kernel to boot. My target for now is a VMware Fusion VM, which I've got s= et up to PXE boot via nix's ppxeload. It downloads and runs ppxeload just = fine, but there appears to be no ether0. Here's the output on the screen: Network boot from Intel E1000 Copyright (C) 2003-2008 VMware, Inc. Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 0C 29 D2 AC AC GUID: 564DA193-9D84-E902-D0E8-F20CCBD2A= CAC CLIENT IP: 10.0.0.133 MASK: 255.255.255.0 DHCP IP: 10.0.0.101 GATEWAY IP: 10.0.0.1 Protected-mode bootstrap... ELCR: 0E00 cpuidentify: cpuidax 0x306a9 cpuiddx 0xfabfbff apm ax=3Df000 cx=3Df000 dx=3D40 di=3Dffff ebx=3D5770 esi=3D-1 Boot devices: fd0 boot from:=20 I'd think that at this point, I should just be able to type "ether0!/amd64/= 9k8cpu", but alas that just gets me another "boot from:" prompt. One gotch= a that I can think of is that my TFTP server is not the same as my DHCP ser= ver. Is there a way to specify the TFTP server? Or am I missing something= really stupidly simple like ppxeload not supporting the E1000 that VMware = Fusion emulates, or that my ppxeload binary may need to be recompiled? Many thanks in advance! -Ben