From: Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: [9fans] partitioning problems - fixed
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 21:32:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <936B92BB-1C04-4464-A2AE-E6972242C49D@quintile.net> (raw)
hi all,
well, after a long slog, and a few wrong turns, it is all obvious.
9load reads the partition table and writes the disk config. it reads
into a 2k buffer but it only reads one sector -512 bytes on my disks,
which is not enough for the large number of partitions i have.
the solution is is simple, plan9.ini has a readparts= option which asks
the kernel to re-read the partition table and setup devsd again. i assume this
was added for just my situation.
a fix for 9load would be fairly simple but a better fix might be to use 9front's
booting structure...
i will fix devfs when i get a chance though, it needs to report errors and attempt to continue in the face of bad configuration lines.
-Steve
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