Re: [9front] "init: starting /bin/rc" repeats endlessly when I boot a computer installed from 9front-9931.amd64.iso

[qwx@sciops.net]

Hi,

I'm not sure I understand what you did in the second part of your
email, you were trying to reinstall 9front by booting the usb or cd
and that failed?

> [...] I type Enter again and then see:
> 
>    current fs is "main"
>    10 uids read, 3 groups used
>    63-bit cwfs as of Sun Jun 25 10:07:41 2023
>            last boot Thu Jul 20 20:54:23 2023
> 
>    init: starting /bin/rc
> 
>    init: starting /bin/rc
> 
>    init: starting /bin/rc
> 
>    init: starting /bin/rc
> 
>    init: starting /bin/rc
> 
>    init: starting /bin/rc
> 
> repeated endlessly.

For the first part, no, 5gb is not enough if you use cwfs, which by
default splits the partition into 3 slices for cache, worm and other.
Read the documentation on cwfs to know why.  I suspect a borked
installation just because of this.  Either use 10gb or more or switch
to hjfs.  Even 10gb isn't a lot, the worm will fill up quickly.


> I then see something being counted very quickly, then I see
> 
>     Plan 9
> 
> and then a bunch of other stuff that flies off the screen, culminating
> in the list of devices that you saw earlier, and then:
> 
>     bootargs is (tcp, tls, il, local!device)[local!/dev/sdE1/data]

For the second part, look at bootargs: you have local!/dev/sdE1/data
selected by default, which corresponds to the dvd drive.  Make sure
that the right entry is specified, if the usb drive is inserted, you
should have a /dev/sdU…/data in the list and you should set bootargs
to local!/dev/sdU…/data if it isn't set automatically.  I figure the
I/O read error you get is just because it can't read anything there.

Hope this helps,

Cheers,
qwx