Re: [9fans] Cannot boot plan9

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> 0.6.0 disk 01.01.8a 10de/03ec 0 4:0000ffa1 16 0.8.0 disk 01.01.85
> 10de/03f6 5 0:0000d401 16 1:0000d081 16 2:0000d001 16 3:0000cc01 16
> 4:0000c881 16 5:deefc000 4096
>
> But I have no idea what does it means.  I hope you will know.

i do.  this is an nvidia sata part, which is not currently supported
by plan 9.

> > the usb installer is here
> >
> > 	http://ftp.9atom.org/other/+usbinstamd64.bz2
> >
> > just bunzip2 the image, and dd the result to a usb stick that's at
> > least 512MB.
> Wow!  It's working!  What is the diffirence between standard CD
> version and this one?

the difference is that in not using a cdrom, we avoid the issue of
a missing driver for the sata_nv part.

> > this information should give enough information to yield a patch to
> > the distribution, and will satisfy gsoc by itself.
> Do you meen that I can create a driver to my hd as the gosc project?

well, you could propose that, but i don't think you could get a mentor
really excited about that project since it is (a) uncommon (b) last produced
many years ago (c) undocumented outside linux drivers.

linux sata drivers can be harder to clone since so much of the work is done
in a series of generic layers.  and they can take a while to digest.

i would recommend running from usb on this machine.  alternatively,
find an ahci add in card.

- erik