From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:49:44 -0400 From: "Russ Cox" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Venti Install In-Reply-To: <20070326113916.F3DAA21EC6@medicine-bow.quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2ef8db43c822a2580c7bedfb69d78a86@orthanc.cc.titech.ac.jp> <20070326113916.F3DAA21EC6@medicine-bow.quanstro.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3166a2a4-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 The lines that were quoted: init: starting /bin/rc echo: write error: bad process or channel control request echo: write error: bad process or channel control request are almost always caused by trying to enable dma when it's not available. In the case of VMware, I believe DMA is never available, since they handle the REP INSL instruction as efficiently as they could simulate DMA anyway. I know this is the case for the simulated IDE. I am not as sure about simulated SCSI. Russ