On Wed Jul 9 16:10:16 EDT 2014, riddler...@gmail.com wrote:
> I've been looking into it a bit more today. It actually seems to be quite
> stuck.
>
> I get as far as the 'live usb' boot, with glenda, rio, acme etc
> starting up. The "plan 9 install" screen and its live log are there.
> While working through the install the only disk appears to be
> /dev/sdu0. This is ~4GB in size and is the USB stick.
> The PC HDD does not seem the be listed in /dev; there is however a
> /dev/sdU0, but this seems to be a duplicate of /dev/sdu0 (based on ls
> -l showing the exact same size and the PC HDD should be much bigger
> than 4GB).
sdU0.0 is provided directly by usb/disk. usb/disk does not do partitioning,
so it is remounted with the sd loopback driver (sdloop(3)). this is what you
see as sdu0.
the pc hard drive would be listed as /dev/sdE? where ? in [0..f], assuming that
your machine uses ahci. the output of /dev/sdctl would be useful, otherwise
you can use sos/sos (see sos(8)).
> Took a look at /dev/kmesg and there is only only three lines that look
> relevant that I've put in at the end of this email. I can attach more
> of it if required.
>
> I attempted running sos/sos but some files appear to be missing. It
> says it can not find bin/aux/cpuid, bin/aux/dmi, bin/bzip2.
> The /tmp/sos.mkfs.bz2 file is created, but empty.
i wonder if the fact that syscall(1) was broken by the nsec thing caused fewer
programs to be built than normal. this is fixed in the current image.
i would recommend doing the following
@{cd /sys/src/cmd/aux; mk install}
@{cd /sys/src/cmd/bzip2; mk install}
and running sos again.
really want you're interested in is the full output of /dev/kmesg, and
/dev/sdctl.
> I suspect it's more likely I've unknowingly missed a step somewhere
> rather than the bin directory is actually missing files.
>
> ----/dev/kmesg output snippet----
> #A0: hda; mem fffffe00f7e30000 irq 4
> #A0: hda: coded #0, vendor 10ec0662, rev 00100300
> #A0: hda: coded #c, vendor 80862806, rev 00100000
>
> Any help appreciated!
this is cool, and expected.
- erik
