[9fans] 9load vs vista, momentus drives

[9fans] 9load vs vista, momentus drives

[erik quanstrom]

since fgb is so cool, he let me debug on his back.
we found a couple of non-obvious problems on an
ich9r laptop with a segate momentus drive.

if you're dual-booting plan 9 with vista, it's a good idea to avoid
using a fat16 partition because vista will create a type 0xe
(fat16lba) partition, which the current 9load won't recognize.
contrib/9load-e820 will recognize that partition type.

also the momentus hard drive didn't send or the ich9r
didn't bother receiving the setdevicebits fis and 9load
didn't have a large enough stick to wack some sense into 'em.
now the original problem may still be my fault, but at least
we can get the drive back to reality.

in summary,
9load-e820: now with extra FAT and larger stick!

- erik

Re: [9fans] 9load vs vista, momentus drives

[Federico G. Benavento]

erik did all the work and now Plan 9 boots on this machine

thanks erik

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:46 PM, erik quanstrom<quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> since fgb is so cool, he let me debug on his back.
> we found a couple of non-obvious problems on an
> ich9r laptop with a segate momentus drive.
>
> if you're dual-booting plan 9 with vista, it's a good idea to avoid
> using a fat16 partition because vista will create a type 0xe
> (fat16lba) partition, which the current 9load won't recognize.
> contrib/9load-e820 will recognize that partition type.
>
> also the momentus hard drive didn't send or the ich9r
> didn't bother receiving the setdevicebits fis and 9load
> didn't have a large enough stick to wack some sense into 'em.
> now the original problem may still be my fault, but at least
> we can get the drive back to reality.
>
> in summary,
> 9load-e820: now with extra FAT and larger stick!
>
> - erik
>
>



--
Federico G. Benavento

Re: [9fans] 9load vs vista, momentus drives

[Bela Valek]

We are going to see your changes in the distribution CD soon, right?
(Its strange to find great solutions and fixes in the /contrib
section, why are they not included in the regular install CD?)

I have a problem with my Plan 9 installation in Bochs. Do you know,
why I get "grep: exec header invalid" messages at boot time, and every
time I look up a manpage? (I tried to edit rc scripts awhile ago, so
it might be my fault, but i cant locate the source of the problem). I
dont have access to Freenode here, so I cant go to the channel to ask
such questions.

thanks in advance: Bela

Re: [9fans] 9load vs vista, momentus drives

[erik quanstrom]

On Fri Jul 24 06:06:31 EDT 2009, bvalek2@gmail.com wrote:
> We are going to see your changes in the distribution CD soon, right?
> (Its strange to find great solutions and fixes in the /contrib
> section, why are they not included in the regular install CD?)

well, i made some pretty big changes to sd.  i think the onus
is on me to convince other people that they are good and
worthwhile.  since the changes are big, the bar is pretty high.
and i don't think i've accomplished that yet.

> I have a problem with my Plan 9 installation in Bochs. Do you know,
> why I get "grep: exec header invalid" messages at boot time, and every

ah.  i did this to myself yesterday.  any chance you have something
in /rc/bin that has a #/bin/rc instead of #!/bin/rc.  or some other
typo in the shbang line?

- erik