Re: [9fans] Re: Time for 9? :-)

[ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>]

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Michael: I am convinced there's some basic thing you're doing wrong, so
early in the game, that nothing after that is working.

Just about the only way out I can think of at this point is you post a
movie to youtube, showing what you are doing, starting from what you plug
in, and what you type, without skipping any steps (you keep skipping steps
when you tell us what you're doing).

Or, maybe, we need to have a plan 9 office hours, once a week, where people
bring their problems and we try to solve them. This would actually be a
sensible thing for the foundation to help with. It's worked well for Go.


On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 6:22 AM Michael Jensen <mikethe1wheelnut@gmail.com>
wrote:

> ..what?  I do not understand.  In all the tests I just did, for each
> computer (I did not test the T420), I did at least one test where the
> ordinary Sata drive was not there, so the only "memory" that could be seen
> was either the mSata, the boot medium, or ram.
>
> Ok, this is very strange.. I am trying again on the T430, which happens to
> have both the mSata and it's ordinary Sata, (coincidence), both register,
> but it looks like I now have -two- /data options.  /dev/sdE0/data and
> /dev/sdE2/data.  As for  your suggestion, I have tried accepting the
> default, which is [], or nothing, and.. same thing.  Infinite loop.
>
> ..repeating  the test, with the Sata out, I get the same thing, (infinite
> loop), except that there is now only one /dev/sdE1/data, with a 1, not 2 or
> 0.
>
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM <ori@eigenstate.org> wrote:
>
>> Quoth Michael Jensen <mikethe1wheelnut@gmail.com>:
>> > > Well, I've now done about all I can at this end.  As I suddenly
>> suspected
>> > > right before the test, connecting an msata drive to the computer via
>> an
>> > > msata-sata adaptor didn't work.  It still looks like a sata.  I
>> assume.
>> > >
>> > > I how have the msata in the T430, and it is at least recognized.
>> Which
>> > > shows that at least -something- is working.  However, selecting the
>> boot
>> > > drive still fails, same as before, asking again and again, an infinite
>> > > loop.  In theory I could do the same test with the T420, but.. why
>> would
>> > > the results be different?
>> > >
>> > > I can still try the test with this computer, the 7440.
>>
>> Hve you tried *not* selecting the first drive?
>>
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