Re: [9fans] bitsy woes

Re: [9fans] bitsy woes

[andrey mirtchovski]

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thanx, worked like a charm -- the problem was that i had an old
partition configuration (probably from attempts to load inferno on the
same ipaq) after repartitioning it worked fine.

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From: Sape Mullender <sape@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] bitsy woes
Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 08:19:15 -0400
Message-ID: <1af4c8ca66b0acbc5c4d35e191bf82a8@plan9.bell-labs.com>

> using the new files rob provided, the 9bitsy kernel
> loads, prompts me to boot from ipaq and panics with:
>
> paqfs: bad header magic 0xe03988d1: /dev/flash/ramdisk
> vpanic: boot process died: sys: write on closed pipe pc=0x00005d60

This suggests that the ramdisk partition did not contain a properly formatted
paq file system.  Make sure the partitions you made with the loader are
the same as those expected by Plan 9 (see Booting101).  Then load
kernel and paqdisk using the serial cable and the loader.  You need to
	mk paqdisk
not `ramdisk' and you need to load the file paqdisk into the ramdisk partition.

Re: [9fans] bitsy woes

[Russ Cox]

> This suggests that the ramdisk partition did not contain a properly formatted
> paq file system.  Make sure the partitions you made with the loader are
> the same as those expected by Plan 9 (see Booting101).  Then load
> kernel and paqdisk using the serial cable and the loader.  You need to
> 	mk paqdisk
> not `ramdisk' and you need to load the file paqdisk into the ramdisk partition.

You can test that you got it right before you
load it into the iPaq by running

	cd /sys/src/9/boot
	8c testboot.c
	8l testboot.8
	8.out paqfs -v -i /sys/src/9/bitsy/paqdisk
	ls -l /n/kremvax

Russ

Re: [9fans] bitsy woes

[Sape Mullender]

> using the new files rob provided, the 9bitsy kernel
> loads, prompts me to boot from ipaq and panics with:
>
> paqfs: bad header magic 0xe03988d1: /dev/flash/ramdisk
> vpanic: boot process died: sys: write on closed pipe pc=0x00005d60

This suggests that the ramdisk partition did not contain a properly formatted
paq file system.  Make sure the partitions you made with the loader are
the same as those expected by Plan 9 (see Booting101).  Then load
kernel and paqdisk using the serial cable and the loader.  You need to
	mk paqdisk
not `ramdisk' and you need to load the file paqdisk into the ramdisk partition.

[9fans] bitsy woes

[andrey mirtchovski]

using the new files rob provided, the 9bitsy kernel
loads, prompts me to boot from ipaq and panics with:

paqfs: bad header magic 0xe03988d1: /dev/flash/ramdisk
vpanic: boot process died: sys: write on closed pipe pc=0x00005d60

any ideas?