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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Trap in 5c compiling rc?
Date: Tue,  7 Dec 2010 21:25:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikxN-rjRKWcs2nRj6kqmmtgAuM8ndNGgin1F=WQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=mUY9wE_Rdy2qb9Av8sn4hWw9r7ucKumHq5DSb@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Paul Lalonde <paul.a.lalonde@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a successful boot off my USB stick onto the Guru.
> Now, how do I tell it to use the USB stick as a root filesystem?  I'm
> guessing I'll want to have two partitions, one to hold the image and another
> as a native P4 fs of some sort (if only to get case-sensitive filenames).
>  How do I specify the later to the "root is from" prompt?


I've gotten part of the way there. I set up a 9fat on the first
partition and I can boot the kernel from u-boot with the 9fat. But I'm
not quite done the rest.

ron



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-08  5:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-05  2:12 Paul Lalonde
2010-12-05  8:33 ` Bruce Ellis
2010-12-05  9:41   ` Charles Forsyth
2010-12-05  9:49     ` Charles Forsyth
2010-12-05 11:38       ` Bruce Ellis
2010-12-05 13:24       ` erik quanstrom
2010-12-05 16:16         ` Paul Lalonde
2010-12-05 16:42           ` Paul Lalonde
2010-12-05 18:02             ` Charles Forsyth
2010-12-05 18:15               ` ron minnich
2010-12-05 18:28                 ` ron minnich
2010-12-07  1:08                   ` Paul Lalonde
2010-12-07  1:14                     ` ron minnich
2010-12-07  1:54                       ` erik quanstrom
2010-12-07  3:51                         ` ron minnich
2010-12-07  5:57                           ` Paul Lalonde
2010-12-07  6:42                             ` Lucio De Re
2010-12-07 13:34                               ` erik quanstrom
2010-12-07 13:37                             ` erik quanstrom
2010-12-07 15:32                               ` Paul Lalonde
2010-12-07 16:26                               ` ron minnich
2010-12-07 16:39                                 ` ron minnich
2010-12-08  4:26                                   ` Paul Lalonde
2010-12-08  0:33                                     ` Lucio De Re
2010-12-08  4:34                                     ` Paul Lalonde
2010-12-08  0:38                                       ` Lucio De Re
2010-12-08  5:25                                     ` ron minnich [this message]
2010-12-08  6:13                                       ` Lucio De Re
2010-12-08  6:21                                         ` ron minnich
2010-12-08 12:18                                         ` Paul Lalonde
2010-12-08 13:06                                     ` erik quanstrom
2010-12-08 19:26                                       ` Paul Lalonde
2010-12-05 17:08           ` erik quanstrom

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