hi,

i haven't tried using a pi as an authority server, i have run one as a disk less terminal booting off my file server.

i will try this again tonight as i have been meaning to do so,
i will report back later...

-Steve

> On 24 Nov 2016, at 17:48, James A. Robinson <jim.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I can boot a raspberry pi using its local fossil, and I can
> mount a remote fileserver using 9fs once it is booted. Next,
> I wanted to try and mount the filesystem as the pi's root.
> 
> Based on this
> 
> http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/8/plan9.ini
> http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/8/boot
> 
> I tried using the following to mount the root off a 9atom
> file server I have running on 10.0.1.200:
> 
> bootargs=tcp!10.0.1.200!564
> 
> Per the discussion I had with folks here earlier, I've set
> the same host owner, password, and secstore on both
> machine.  I want this raspberry pi to act as an auth
> server.  I had originally intended for it to be a standalone
> auth server, but based on input from folks I want to see
> whether or not I can mount the auth server's root from
> the fileserver.
> 
> Upon trying to boot the pi prompted for root, selected the
> default (tcp) after 5 seconds, and then threw this:
> 
> panic: boot process died: undefined instruction: pc 0x605c
> 
> before rebooting itself.  I won't get a chance to dig into it
> until later this weekend, but wanted to ask if anyone had
> seen this themselves and knew what  I was doing wrong.
> 
> 
> Jim
>