Re: [9fans] New User with Problems

[Iruata Souza <iru.muzgo@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:13 PM, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:34 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
> wrote:
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>> > I did look around and the only possible problems I could find were
>> > that maybe since I don't have Windows it was trying to look for the
>> > FAT file (I'm strictly an only Linux user) in which case I do not have
>> > VMWare and I'd be curious if there is a non-DOS ISO file that could
>> > run on a Linux only system. The only other explanations that seemed
>> > somewhat logical were that something went wrong in the pcirouting and
>> > I missed something in the PC requirements listed on site or the ISO
>> > file burned to my CD is faulty.
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>>
>> i put a modified 9load on sources /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/9load
>> perhaps you would be able to download it and put it in your 9fat
>> partition with the distribution cd?
>>
>> if not or doesn't work, send the output of lspci off line.
>> the main problem is that the distribution cd is not recognizing
>> your pata/sata devices.
>>
>> - erik
>>
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> If you try Erik's 9atom ISO, you may have better luck.  It'd be nice if the
> 9load changes he made were already rolled up into the standard ISO, but I
> guess they haven't made it yet?
> Also there's a project to boot plan 9 from plan 9 without 9load, but I've
> sort of lost track of where that is.  I believe it was showing signs of
> great success though :-)
> Dave
>

http://src.oitobits.net/9null may be what you've heard of. i managed
to boot kernels without 9load, but now it is somehow dog slow for
loading from hard disks (cds are ok). i'm working on fixing that this
week.

iru