[9fans] QEMU question

[9fans] QEMU question

[Pietro Gagliardi]

Hello. I switched to using QEMU so I now have Internet :-) But when I  
boot, i get this:

http://myskitch.com/pietrogagliardi/booting_plan_9_on_q_- 
_what_is_this_-20071109-151831.png

I always say 1 for the prompt. What's going on? - Pietro

Re: [9fans] QEMU question

[John Stalker]

> Hello. I switched to using QEMU so I now have Internet :-) But when I  
> boot, i get this:
> 
> http://myskitch.com/pietrogagliardi/booting_plan_9_on_q_- 
> _what_is_this_-20071109-151831.png
> 
> I always say 1 for the prompt. What's going on? - Pietro

Odd.  I use plan9 under qemu and I've never seen anything like it.
What is your plan9.ini and what does disk/fdisk show?
-- 
John Stalker
School of Mathematics
Trinity College Dublin
tel +353 1 896 1983
fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] QEMU question

[Pietro Gagliardi]

term% disk/fdisk /dev/sdC0/data
cylinder = 8225280 bytes
  *p1			0	522		(522 cylinders, 3.99 GB)	PLAN(
 >>> q
term% 9fat: ; cat /n/9fat/plan9.ini
bootfile=sdC0!9fat!9pcf
bootargs=local!#S/sdC0/fossil
bootdisk=local!#S/sdC0/fossil

*nomp=1
*nodumpstack=1
partition=new
dmamode=ask

*nobiosload=1
*noahciload=1

*nobiosload=1
*noahciload=1

*debugload=1
mouseport=ps2
monitor=vesa
vgasize=1024x768x24

audio0=sb16

ether0=ne2000
term%

Note that there are, in fact, two *nbiosload=1 lines and two  
*noahciload=1 lines.

On Nov 9, 2007, at 7:24 PM, John Stalker wrote:

>> Hello. I switched to using QEMU so I now have Internet :-) But when I
>> boot, i get this:
>>
>> http://myskitch.com/pietrogagliardi/booting_plan_9_on_q_-
>> _what_is_this_-20071109-151831.png
>>
>> I always say 1 for the prompt. What's going on? - Pietro
>
> Odd.  I use plan9 under qemu and I've never seen anything like it.
> What is your plan9.ini and what does disk/fdisk show?
> -- 
> John Stalker
> School of Mathematics
> Trinity College Dublin
> tel +353 1 896 1983
> fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] QEMU question

[erik quanstrom]

> Note that there are, in fact, two *nbiosload=1 lines and two  
> *noahciload=1 lines.

why?

- erik

Re: [9fans] QEMU question

[Pietro Gagliardi]

On Nov 9, 2007, at 8:15 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:

>> Note that there are, in fact, two *nbiosload=1 lines and two
>> *noahciload=1 lines.
>
> why?
>
> - erik
>

That's the same question I'm asking :-)

Re: [9fans] QEMU question

[erik quanstrom]

>>> Note that there are, in fact, two *nbiosload=1 lines and two
>>> *noahciload=1 lines.
>>
>> why?
>>
>> - erik
>>
> 
> That's the same question I'm asking :-)

you can delete the extra copies.  you may also delete the
blank lines.

- erik

Re: [9fans] QEMU question

[Antonin Vecera]

But what does this boot menu mean? I saw it yesterday after making new
instalation of Plan9 with fresh install CD.
It looks like a menu, but in plan9.ini isn't any [menu] section.
Is it some new feature? Any doc?

Antonin


On Nov 10, 2007 2:28 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> >>> Note that there are, in fact, two *nbiosload=1 lines and two
> >>> *noahciload=1 lines.
> >>
> >> why?
> >>
> >> - erik
> >>
> >
> > That's the same question I'm asking :-)
>
> you can delete the extra copies.  you may also delete the
> blank lines.
>
> - erik
>
>

Re: [9fans] QEMU question

[erik quanstrom]

> But what does this boot menu mean? I saw it yesterday after making new
> instalation of Plan9 with fresh install CD.
> It looks like a menu, but in plan9.ini isn't any [menu] section.
> Is it some new feature? Any doc?
> 
> Antonin

plan9.ini(8) drives what 9load does.  if a menu is printed,
the data for the menu is in it.

- erik

Re: [9fans] QEMU question

[lucio]

>> But what does this boot menu mean? I saw it yesterday after making new
>> instalation of Plan9 with fresh install CD.
>> It looks like a menu, but in plan9.ini isn't any [menu] section.
>> Is it some new feature? Any doc?
>> 
>> Antonin
> 
> plan9.ini(8) drives what 9load does.  if a menu is printed,
> the data for the menu is in it.
> 
I could have sworn I read in the man pages for plan9.ini that multiple
bootargs cause a menu to be displayed by 9load.  I can't seem to find
it now...

++L

Re: [9fans] QEMU question

[erik quanstrom]

>>> instalation of Plan9 with fresh install CD.
>>> It looks like a menu, but in plan9.ini isn't any [menu] section.
>>> Is it some new feature? Any doc?
>>> 
>>> Antonin
>> 
>> plan9.ini(8) drives what 9load does.  if a menu is printed,
>> the data for the menu is in it.
>> 
> I could have sworn I read in the man pages for plan9.ini that multiple
> bootargs cause a menu to be displayed by 9load.  I can't seem to find
> it now...
> 
> ++L

 i'd forgotten about that.  if a var is multiply defined, you do get a
different menu.  cf. /sys/src/boot/pc/conf.c:/^getconf.  i don't know
that i've ever used this.

i was thinking of the normal boot menus.

- erik

Re: [9fans] QEMU question

[Sander van Dijk]

Hi,

On Nov 9, 2007 9:20 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:
> Hello. I switched to using QEMU so I now have Internet :-) But when I
> boot, i get this:
>
> http://myskitch.com/pietrogagliardi/booting_plan_9_on_q_-
> _what_is_this_-20071109-151831.png
>
> I always say 1 for the prompt. What's going on? - Pietro

I just installed Plan 9 from the 20071222 image, and get the same menu
when booting. The menu is indeed caused by the duplicate *nobiosload
entry, and as such it can easily be fixed, but I'm wondering why a
fresh install has this duplicate entry? As it can be somewhat
confusing for a newbie, I think this should be fixed if possible.

Greetings, Sander.