On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:13 PM, David Leimbach <leim...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:34 AM, erik quanstrom <quans...@labs.coraid.com> > wrote: >> >> > I did look around and the only possible problems I could find were >> > that maybe since I don't have Windows it was trying to look for the >> > FAT file (I'm strictly an only Linux user) in which case I do not have >> > VMWare and I'd be curious if there is a non-DOS ISO file that could >> > run on a Linux only system. The only other explanations that seemed >> > somewhat logical were that something went wrong in the pcirouting and >> > I missed something in the PC requirements listed on site or the ISO >> > file burned to my CD is faulty. >> > >> > Thoughts? >> >> i put a modified 9load on sources /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/9load >> perhaps you would be able to download it and put it in your 9fat >> partition with the distribution cd? >> >> if not or doesn't work, send the output of lspci off line. >> the main problem is that the distribution cd is not recognizing >> your pata/sata devices. >> >> - erik >> > > If you try Erik's 9atom ISO, you may have better luck. It'd be nice if the > 9load changes he made were already rolled up into the standard ISO, but I > guess they haven't made it yet? > Also there's a project to boot plan 9 from plan 9 without 9load, but I've > sort of lost track of where that is. I believe it was showing signs of > great success though :-) > Dave >
http://src.oitobits.net/9null may be what you've heard of. i managed to boot kernels without 9load, but now it is somehow dog slow for loading from hard disks (cds are ok). i'm working on fixing that this week. iru
