From: hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Booting 9front using 9vx
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 01:20:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFSF3XPf_3H26h37ScRTkBizeZ5JfaWAoO8UWnuje1+LY8sjOg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1rdrksn.fsf@rudra.copyninja.info>
Extract a Plan9 root file system (ISOs from official plan9, 9atom or
9front all should work) into your directory of choice "/path/to/plan9"
(9vx defaults to the directory /usr/local/plan9vx)
On 3/2/16, Vasudev Kamath <vasudev@copyninja.info> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was reading the Arch wiki on 9vx ¹ which said 9vx should/might boot 9atom
> and 9front ISO also. So I thought of trying this out and executed the
> following command.
>
> 9vx -r ../images/9front-4796.018cb441d1b5.iso -u glenda "CWD=#Z`pwd`"
> "nvram=#Z`pwd`/9front.nvr"
>
> But I got the following error and 9vx is exited.
>
>> 9vx panic: boot process died: boot: mount /: file does not exist
>
>> aborting, to dump core.
>> We're done talking
>
> So I'm just wondering if its possible to boot 9front ISO from 9vx or is
> it just Labs ISO.
>
> ¹ https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/9vx
>
> Cheers,
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-05 0:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-02 14:55 Vasudev Kamath
2016-03-05 0:20 ` hiro [this message]
2016-03-05 3:20 ` Vasudev Kamath
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