[9fans] cpurc

[9fans] cpurc

[Christian Neeb]

Hello,

I want to set up a small Plan 9 network for the first time. I got two
old pentium computers and i wanted to use one as a fileserver and the
other one as cpu/auth server. After finishing the tutorial
"Configuring a Standalone CPU Server" from the wiki my computer still
boots up using "termrc" instead of "cpurc". I configured the kernel
with

port
	int cpuserver = 1;

and installed a boot menu in plan9.ini to choose from the installed
kernels.

Could you please give me a hint why I doesn't start "cpurc"?

Thanks in advance,
Christian

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Christian Neeb <chneeb@gmx.net>   PGP: 0x7CEAB672

Re: [9fans] cpurc

[mirtchov]

> Could you please give me a hint why I doesn't start "cpurc"?

You probably used a non-cpu config file as a template.  You will find
upon closer inspection that the difference between a cpu and non-cpu
kernel is not only in "cpuserver=" values -- cpu kernels have the boot
section configured as 'boot cpu args' instead of just 'boot':

so change the boot section in your config from:

	boot
		il
		tcp

to:

	boot cpu
		il
		tcp

Cpu kernel config templates in the current distribution are are
'pccpu' and 'pccpuf'.

andrey

Re: [9fans] cpurc

[Christian Neeb]

Hi,

On 2003-11-17 21:13:47 +0100 mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca wrote:

> You probably used a non-cpu config file as a template.  You will find
> upon closer inspection that the difference between a cpu and non-cpu
> kernel is not only in "cpuserver=" values -- cpu kernels have the boot
> section configured as 'boot cpu args' instead of just 'boot':
> ...
> Cpu kernel config templates in the current distribution are are
> 'pccpu' and 'pccpuf'.

Thanks for the hint. I used the pcauth config file as a template. It
has "boot cpu boot #S/sdC0/" in it. My distribution is the "Sources
Snapshot" from the downloads page.

Thanks,
Christian

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Christian Neeb <chneeb@gmx.net>   PGP: 0x7CEAB672

Re: [9fans] cpurc

[mirtchov]

you are right, pcauth is also supposed to be a cpu server.  i wonder
what throws it off base...

the code that decides whether to run cpurc or termrc is
/sys/src/cmd/init.c, if started with '-c' it execs 'rc -c
/rc/bin/cpurc'.  you may take a look there for debugging, but the
problem is probably some misunderstanding between the kernel boot code
(/sys/src/9/boot/*) which calls /bin/init, and what you have
configured in pcauth...

andrey

[9fans] Diskette Image Creation problem

[vdharani]

Hi,

I tried to create and download diskette image but it gives the following
error:

"We ran out of resources while creating your diskette image. Please try
again later."

Any problem?

Thanks
dharani

Re: [9fans] Diskette Image Creation problem

[David Presotto]

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fixed

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From: <vdharani@infernopark.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] Diskette Image Creation problem
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 22:47:25 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <55072.135.214.42.68.1069127245.squirrel@www.infernopark.com>

Hi,

I tried to create and download diskette image but it gives the following
error:

"We ran out of resources while creating your diskette image. Please try
again later."

Any problem?

Thanks
dharani