From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:29:49 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20100921214147.GA9775@chiron.galaxy> References: <20100921214147.GA9775@chiron.galaxy> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] pxe booting net4801 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 591613bc-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > I can't get a Soekris net4801 box to boot Plan 9 via PXE. > > On my Plan 9 fileserver (which also runs ip/dhcpd and ip/tftpd), I > created /cfg/pxe/, which is > almost identical to the file I use for a diskless terminal. The only > differences are that I put mouseport, monitor and vgasize in > comment. The remaining things, bootfile and nobootprompt are the same > as for the terminal. I first tried to boot /386/9pc.gz and then > /386/9pccpu.gz (see below). I also added *nomp=1 but that doesn't seem > to get it any further. The console output looks as follows: the output stops after the jump to the kernel proper. so either the jump the kernel, or the very early boot process before the "Plan 9" print hung, or the serial console isn't working in the kernel proper. have you set up the serial console in your pxe'd plan9.ini? that would cover the second case. if you're using the distribution 9load, serial baud setting is via baud=. the kernel baud setting is , e.g. "console=0 b19200". i changed 9load in 9atom to recognize kernel-style console configuration when i was booting soekris boxen. i haven't used a soekris for quite some time. (too slow!) iirc, some versions of bios are more friendly than others. iirc 1.33 was a problem with plan 9 on my particular hardware. as a wild guess, one might disable the functions in cga.c obviously, there's no cga. - erik