Re: difference cdrom boot and 9fat boot?

[Jens Staal <staal1978@gmail.com>]

SOLVED!

This is both embarrasing and a bit surprising, but I think your
hypothesis of "contamination" from previous plan9 installation at the
same partition somehow was right.

When I tried reinstalling before I usually just deleted all the plan9
partitions in the installation. Now I removed the partition in Linux,
formatted the empty space in a new partition and deleted that one too.

After installing on this patch of empty space, the 9Front boots just
fine. I am extremely surprised and none the wiser.

On the bright side: now I might be able to play with stuff that I at
least can hope to begin to understand (or at least where I can get
hold of the errors ;) )

2011/6/1 Jens Staal <staal1978@gmail.com>:
> I checked again and it is indeed as you said.
> From the cdboot you got e820= (numbers) as the first line visible on screen
> from the 9fat boot it is only the e820: (numbers) after a couple of
> other lines (so probably kernel output).
>
> I guess it may then be something weird with my 9bootfat. I will pull
> another iso and copy that 9bootfat over and see what happens.
>
> I also (naively) just tried to define
> e820=(numbers)
> in plan9.ini circumvent whatever is wrong, but that did not work. Are
> you aware of some kind of similar option?
>
> 2011/6/1 Jens Staal <staal1978@gmail.com>:
>> Sorry about messing up. I did indeed block the boot by entering the
>> prompt for each boot option and these were the things I could see....
>>
>> 2011/5/31  <cinap_lenrek@gmx.de>:
>>> this is not the output! it cant be...
>>> 9bootfat prints in exactly the same form as 9bootiso... it never
>>> prints something like "e820:" and the hex values are alawys
>>> 16 hex digits. its the same code after all, the 9bootfat/9bootiso
>>> and 9bootpxe differ only in ther start() functions!
>>>
>>> what is this?
>>>
>>> cdboot:
>>> "e820: 0000000000000000 000000000009f800 0000000000100000 000000007fed0000"
>>>
>>> the numbers there at least look right, but it should really be:
>>>
>>> "e820=0000000000000000 000000000009f800 0000000000100000 000000007fed0000"
>>>
>>> this one completly puzzles me... 16bit formating? wtf?
>>>
>>> 9fat:
>>> "e820: 0000 0000 0009 f800 memory"
>>>
>>> the "memory" there indicates that this is printed by the kernel i guess?
>>>
>>> but what i wanted for like 3 mails is the output of 9bootfats e820 scan!
>>> what does it print for e832=? you said it produces e820= output? what is
>>> it?
>>>
>>> did you got to the > prompt with 9bootfat?
>>>
>>> this all makes no sense!
>>>
>>> :-(
>>>
>>> --
>>> cinap
>>>
>>
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