Hi everybody,

I am attempting to follow the directions in wiki at:

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Configuring_a_standalone_CPU_server/index.html

I inserted the bootdir section into the kernel configuration file as
directed; yet when I compile I get an error message (I have attached
the entire compile output at the end of this message):

8c -FVw bootpcauth.c
8l -o bootpcauth.out bootpcauth.8 ../boot/libboot.a8 print.8
../port/mkroot bootpcauth boot
bootpcauth.c:8 name not declared: configfactotum
bootpcauth.c:8 name not declared: connectfactotum
bootpcauth.c:8 name not declared: factotum
bootpcauth.c:9 name not declared: config
bootpcauth.c:9 name not declared: bin
bootpcauth.c:9 name not declared: disk
bootpcauth.c:9 name not declared: kfs
bootpcauth.c:9 name not declared: connect
bootpcauth.c:9 name not declared: bin
bootpcauth.c:9 name not declared: disk
bootpcauth.c:9 name not declared: kfs
too many errors
mk: ../boot/mkboot pcauth > ...  : exit status=rc 583: 8c 595: error
term% ls -l 9pcauth
ls: 9pcauth: '9pcauth' directory entry not found
term%

I looked in our archives and I found a previous message that might
have been someone complaining about the same issue:

https://lists.cse.psu.edu/archives/9fans/2003-February/022826.html

I tried the bootdir entries that people responded with in that thread,
and they gave similar errors.

I looked at that mkboot script which seems to make the bootpcauth.c
file, and if I understood what it was trying to do maybe I could just
write the bootpcauth.c file myself or fix the script.  I read the wiki
entries on compiling the kernel and bootdir.

I can compile a kernel if I simply omit the entire bootdir section
from the pcauth configuration file.  However, when it reboots it
requires me to tell it what kernel to boot from as well as the usual
[il,local] and user login, and I have other problems in later steps (
the "auth/changeuser bootes" step gives "changeuser: can't create user
bootes: access permission denied" ).

Is this bootdir stuff really necessary, and if so, where should I
start reading to make it work ?  Or has making a kernel without the
bootdir section succeeded, and I should focus on those error messages
?

Thanks in advance !

--Rob