Re: [9fans] plan 9 on the guruplug

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

On Monday, August 30, 2010, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote:
> do you compile in an nvram (that includes the correct rights?)
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Yeah, I dd'd the one from my boot disk on the CPU server.

>> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 7:01 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>wrote:
>>
>>> > Just got one of these today, and I suspect my problem has nothing to do
>>> with
>>> > the guruplug and everything to do with the fact that I've never set up
>>> any
>>> > PXE bootable systems before to mount a Plan 9 CPUAUTHFS service.
>>> >
>>> > I'm getting
>>> > "ktrace /kernel/path 0x60806f34 0x6095cf30 0x6095cf6d # pc, sp, linkion
>>> > refused"
>>> >
>>> > I'm thinking that I don't have / either exported in a way I know how to
>>> use
>>> > it remotely or that I have another fundamental configuration issue.
>>> >
>>> > I'm wondering if there's a way to use either Inferno or the same plan 9
>>> > installation to test whatever needs testing to validate that I'll be able
>>> to
>>> > remotely boot my guruplug.
>>>
>>> once you've validated that you have a reasonable
>>> ipnet in /lib/ndb/local covering your network (that's
>>> been my problem many times; verify with ndb/ipquery
>>> especially that you have a fs= entry), and you've tried
>>> adding -Dd to bootargs (adding verbosity to
>>> ip/ipconfig), i usually starting hacking in debug
>>> messages to /sys/src/9/boot, to taste, until
>>> i can reduce things down to a nice consummé.
>>>
>>> if you're loading the kernel, you've gotten pretty far,
>>> so it sounds like dhcp/tftpd themselves are properly
>>> configured.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, the kernel loads, and prompts me for an IP for a filesystem.  I enter
>> one, and it goes through authid, authdom, secstore and password prompts,
>> then it dumps me off into kdumpland
>>
>> "ktrace /kernel/path 0x60806f34 0x6095cf30 0x6095cf6d # pc, sp,
>> linkion refused"
>>
>> It was pretty easy to get it this far.  I'm just wondering if I have my
>> filesystem server set up the way I originally thought, and if there is a way
>> to do some basic test of that.
>>
>> Example, can I attach an Inferno OS to my Plan 9 to validate if other Plan 9
>> instances *should* work.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>>
>>> bon appitit.
>>>
>>> - julia child
>>>
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