Re: [9fans] Re: venti+fossil problems on new install

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

On Fri Sep 22 14:49:38 CDT 2006, stalker@maths.tcd.ie wrote:
> > when you boot to freebsd, do you see "MBR" printed first thing?
> > if you don't then there the plan9 MBR is not installed.
> 
> Sorry, I should have been a bit more precise.  The mbr is in
> two parts.  There is the bootstrap code and then there is
> the partition table.  The bootstrap code isn't from plan9,

this means that you have not installed the plan 9 mbr; the fact that one
can't be written; it could mean that there's a bad parameter somewhere.

now that' you have your machine to this state, what you can do is
try to check to see if any look at all healthy.  the easiest is 9fat.
try
	9fat:
does this mount the partition?  if not you'll need to read prep(8)
and follow the directions for setting up a bootable partition there.

after that's sorted, you can mount venti by hand.
	venti=tcp!$youripaddress!17034	# 17034 = venti
	venti -c /dev/sdC0/arenas

and fossil by hand

	fossil -f /dev/sdC0/fossil -c 'srv -A fossil' -c 'srv -p fossilcons'

the fossilcons(8) man page can get you through some reconfiguration,
if required.

if that all works use "fshalt" to make sure that everything is cleanly
shutdown. then reboot.  if things still aren't working, perhaps your
boot loader needs some help  or there are other problems with, say,
your plan9.ini.

- erik