Erik, quick question:

how can I go about getting it into one of my USB drives (if possible a method without needing a working P9, because all I have are virtual machines and I think they are in my other computer) and testing some of my "I'd like P9 here but installing got f*ed up"? I think every time I have tried it something or other has either made it non boot, or pretty similar (plug, reboot, nothing, repeat)

Thanks,

Ruben

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 6:48 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:

this isn't perfect, or complete, but there is a minimal
64-bit and/or 386/pae usb boot environment here
http://ftp.quanstro.net/other/usbtest.bz2. it's only 10mb,
so it should be a quick download. the reason
for building this was to quickly debug a system that wouldn't
install, but it might be interesting to try out.

a few random notes and gotchas:

0. with dhcp, one can get to get to the full distribution with:
ip/ipconfig && ndb/dns && 9fs atom

1. you will find the usb boot device @ /dev/sdu0, a loopback
device.

2. there is a bug in kfs (patched in 9atom; patch submitted to
sources) to be aware of. so be careful if using tools from
sources on 64-bit kernels.

3. finally, there's (by plan 9 standards) quite a bit of acpi support
in the 64-bit kernel. power events have been somewhat rashly
turned on, and may cause trouble.

as always, i'd be interested in any reports of success or failure.

- erik