Re: [9fans] bitsy anyone?

["Benjamin Huntsman" <BHuntsman@mail2.cu-portland.edu>]

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>"add ramdisk    0x0200000 0x0800000",

I believe the command in question is:
partition define ramdisk 0x200000 0x600000 0

I had changed it to 0x800000 too, but still got the kernel panic...
I'll take a look in paq.c and see if I can fix the hard-coded sizes.

Thanks!!
-Ben


-----Original Message-----
From: 9fans-bounces@9fans.net on behalf of Eoghan Sherry
Sent: Tue 10/21/2008 2:09 PM
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Subject: Re: [9fans] bitsy anyone?
 
> However, I had some problems when uploading the paqdisk
> on the iPaq when the image file is larger than 4 MB. The image
> seems to be corrupted during the upload on the iPaq and Plan 9
> crash during boot. This problem does not appear with a smaller paqdisk.

I don't have a Plan 9 system or a bitsy at hand but I remember
running into this. The hard coded partition definition is fparts in
/sys/src/9/boot/paq.c. The ramdisk partition is defined to be 4 MB although the
various documents imply it should be 6 MB.

I recall simply changing the ramdisk entry to,
        "add ramdisk    0x0200000 0x0800000",
allowed me to use larger images.

Hope this helps,
eoghan



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