Re: [9fans] Boot into sources?

[Akshat Kumar <akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net>]

OK, I just fixed this. Instead of going through
my auth server, I went directly to bell labs auth
server, and now I can login fine. Probably the
lack of the line:

auth=sources.cs.bell-labs.com authdom=outside.plan9.bell-labs.com

in my auth server's /lib/ndb/local was the source
of the problem there, but I bypassed this with
hard-set settings, in any case.

TL;DR: I can boot into sources /plan9 repo now.


Best,
ak

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Akshat Kumar
<akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net> wrote:
> My local KenFS server went down quite badly
> today, with the error:
>
> cwio: write induced dump error - r cache
>
> and then the boot floppy I made for it, can't seem
> to boot the box into KenFS. The server serves as
> my local root fs for all my terminals, cpus, virtual
> machines, etc.. So these things don't have a root
> fs either.
>
> In order to start to repair things, I need an ad-hoc
> Plan 9 fs to boot into. I have an account on sources
> and tried using that, but as soon as my auth server
> supplies sources my uname/passwd, my terminal
> errors out during boot:
>
> version...authentication failed (auth_proxy write fd: file does not
> exist), trying mount anyways
> boot: mount /: fossil authCheck: auth protocol not finished
> panic: boot process died: unknown
> panic: boot process died: unknown
> dumpstack disabled
> cpu0: exiting
>
> However, from within Plan 9, I can srv & mount sources
> with my account, just fine.
>
> SO... is there is any way to use sources with rootdir=/plan9
> as the root filesystem for Plan 9 to boot into?
>
>
> Best,
> ak
>