On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:29:49PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > 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/<MAC of the first interface on the net4801>, 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?
No, because the plan9.ini manpage seems to indicate that the default is b9600 l8 pn s1 (which is also how I used it with Linux and OpenBSD). Is the kernel expecting 19200 baud being used by default? > 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. > - erik -- Frank Lenaerts ---------------------------------------- fr...@inua.be
