Re: difference cdrom boot and 9fat boot?

[cinap_lenrek@gmx.de]

but it would be more interesting figuring out why this
happens :-)

sure, you could backport bcm driver to bell labs plan9,
but this memory detection problem might happen to others
too... 

one tip (i think i wrote this in my first mail) is that
you can break 9boot into a prompt where it will sit
there until you type boot. just hit any key like space
or enter. (it waits for one second and then does
automatically boot if it had a bootfile= in plan9.ini)

you could also comment out the bootfile= line and
type it at the prompt every time when experimenting.

the command syntax of the prompt is the same
syntax used in plan9.ini (sections/menus are not
supported by 9boot)

it would be very interesting what e820= is and also
the e820 prints from the bell-labs kernel.

i think we have some problem with the e820 call... but
its hard to tell what exactly is wrong without any
data.

if you are interested, the e820= format is just a list
of 2 64bit hex numbers. the first is the start address
of a memory block, and the 2nd is the end address of
the block...

e820= should really be memory= but we had no choice
as 9atom is already using it.

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cinap