From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 01:08:47 +0530 From: Arvindh Rajesh Tamilmani To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] install problems In-Reply-To: <14ec7b180511220841t60f8513fv134a202cee7da74e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <8f01ef484041c1157e39903295d16faf@orthanc.cc.titech.ac.jp> <14ec7b180511210909r6cc95e6fyaa2a87a47cea2fb3@mail.gmail.com> <3e1162e60511211011wf5dca6pd60e7793cdfbe871@mail.gmail.com> <14ec7b180511220841t60f8513fv134a202cee7da74e@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: b10beb1a-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I got a fossil-only standalone system (PC with Intel 865G chipset) running successfully with Nov 13 ISO. 1) While installing from CD, after "init: starting /bin/rc" message, I got =09echo: write error: bad process or channel control request twice. I guess this is because of 'echo rwm on' to CDROM's /dev/sd*/ctl in /sys/lib/dist/pc/sub/termrc. 2) When the installation prompts for 'use DMA for ide drives[yes]:', answer= ing "no" doesn't turn off DMA. Looks like /sys/lib/dist/pc/sub/termrc/termrc:2= 2 turns on DMA well before this prompt. 3) copydist failed in the same way described by Andrey. > cacheLocalData: addr=3D229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 50dd4ff > cacheLocalData: addr=3D229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 50dd4ff > cacheLocalData: addr=3D229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 50dd4ff > cacheLocalData: addr=3D229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 50dd4ff > cacheLocalData: addr=3D229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 3e9d4a9b > replica/applylog: appending to db: block label mismatch I had monitor set to vesa at this point. When I retried the installation with monitor set to xga, copydist was successful (with a few 'entire cache is busy; cache is okay again' messages). When I tried Plan 9 installation a few months back (July), I had display problems with the official ISO. plan9vesa.iso worked (with monitor set to xga; I didn't try monitor=3Dvesa then). 4) fmtfossil gives the following error messages, but the installation is not affected. > Reformat /dev/sdC0/fossil (yes, no)[no]: yes > test: unknown operator memory > test: unknown operator memory > test: unknown operator memory > Done. Probably, /sys/lib/dist/pc/inst/fmtfossil:61 should be changed to =09=09n=3D`{cat /dev/swap | grep user | sed 's/^[0-9]+\/([0-9]+) .*/\1/'} in line with recent change (on 2005/10/31) to /sys/src/9/port/devcons.c:893 [I am new to Plan 9. Hope I didn't misinterpret any of the installation messages.] Thanks, Arvindh