Re: [9fans] I did bad things and 9front won't boot

[ori@eigenstate.org]

At a guess, you tried to run something like:

        mount /dev/sdXX/cache

which will try to negotiate a version with your raw disk data,
and write a Tversion message to the first block of your disk.
You want to mount the 9p service which lives in /srv/cwfs.

You can probably either write it back manually, or using the
fs recovery console, documented (er, kinda) in fsconfig(8).

For reference, the fsconfig should look like:
        
        filsys main c(/dev/sdN0/fscache)(/dev/sdN0/fsworm)
        filsys dump o
        filsys other (/dev/sdN0/other)
        noauth
        newcache
        blocksize 16384
        daddrbits 64
        indirblks 4
        dirblks 6
        namelen 144
        cpu% read -c 1024 /dev/sdN0/fscache
        service cwfs
        filsys main c(/dev/sdN0/fscache)(/dev/sdN0/fsworm)
        filsys dump o
        filsys other (/dev/sdN0/other)
        noauth
        newcache
        blocksize 16384
        daddrbits 64
        indirblks 4
        dirblks 6
        namelen 144


Quoth o@o5r.ca <o@o5r.ca>:
> Hello,
> 
> I seem to have done incredibly stupid things to my 9front instance and now on boot I get "panic: unknown keyword in config block: <some character>", followed by a "mount: sys: write on closed pipe pc=0x2008c6" and "mount /srv/boot /root: mount 185: sys: write on closed pipe pc=0x2008c6”.
> 
> At this point I did try to drop into a shell, but I can’t figure out from there how I can mount my filesystem (that I can see in the list of things under /dev/sdE0/fsmain).
> 
> By now I’ve also figured out that the panic is happening “here”, in the mergeconf function:
> http://git.9front.org/plan9front/plan9front/858893ff8ff8d3abd06742276bcb794f3422bab8/sys/src/cmd/cwfs/config.c/f.html
> 
> Is there a way for me to rewrite the config block to sensible defaults by dropping into a shell and/or using a usb drive w/ 9front on it (as if doing an install) to just backstep whatever terrible thing I performed accidentally?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Olivier

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