From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Trouble starting Plan9 Installation and Live CD
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 21:00:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ecde52925defb09862e0eac2b492550b@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <613a47210707071747o5d2e8828i78f164236f52f747@mail.gmail.com>
the problem is not the usb stick, but the fact that plan 9 does not recognize
the usb stick as a floppy disk as it is not using the bios calls. it is the bios calls
that map requests to the floppy disk and map them to the usb.
thus 9load cannot find plan9.ini.
the easy (but oh-so-wrong) might be to have 9load stay in 16bit mode long
enough to probe the "floppy" for plan9.ini. and stick it someplace useful
before branching running 9load proper.
a better but more involved fix might be to switch to 16bit mode and call bios
for floppy access. this is more complicated but could pave the way for 9load
using universal drivers (part of the pxe standard) to load the kernel proper
instead of modified versions of the cpu kernel drivers.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-08 1:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-05 17:17 Paulo Pocinho
2007-07-05 17:26 ` erik quanstrom
2007-07-05 18:40 ` Paulo Pocinho
2007-07-08 0:47 ` Paulo Pocinho
2007-07-08 1:00 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2007-07-08 1:19 ` Jack Johnson
2007-07-08 1:31 ` Jack Johnson
2007-07-08 1:39 ` erik quanstrom
2007-07-10 16:09 ` Paulo Pocinho
2007-07-08 1:43 ` erik quanstrom
2007-07-08 2:17 ` tlaronde
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=ecde52925defb09862e0eac2b492550b@coraid.com \
--to=quanstro@coraid.com \
--cc=9fans@cse.psu.edu \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).