I had to use: $ hdiutil attach -imagekey diskimage-class=CRawDiskImage -nomount 9legacy.rpi
Or the image wasn't recognized. I tried a quick startup but just got a blank screen. I don't have much time to take a look, but I'll do so later this evening. Thanks for this. -- Mat Kovach m...@mek.cc On Tue, Jan 7, 2025, at 03:37, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > Regarding the status of 9vx on macOS and m1, I would suggest an > alternative: use 9front or 9legacy with qemu. I use the 9legacy amd64 > image with qemu on an M1 regularly and even that runs reasonably fast > for my taste. > > In the last few hours I tried to bring up the 9pi4 kernel using > 'qemu-system-aarch64 -machine raspi4b ...' to compare amd64 vs arm64 > emulations on M1. Unfortunately it gets stuck somewhere on accessing > the disk image; I couldn't bring up raspbian bookworm either and > others reported similar issues. Once that's fixed, I would guess that > 9pi4 on qemu/M1 might be slightly faster than 9pc. > > If anyone wants to try bringing up 9pi4 on macos/m1, here are my rough notes: > > - Download 9Pi SD image (9legacy.rpi.bz2) from > https://9legacy.org/download.html > $ bunzip2 9legacy.rpi.bz2 > $ qemu-img resize -f raw 9legacy.rpi 1G # or qemu will complain > $ hdiutil attach -nomount 9legacy.rpi > $ mkdir -p ~/A > $ diskutil mount -mountPoint ~/A /dev/diskXXsY # the FAT partition > $ cp ~/A/9pi4 . > $ cp ~/A/bcm-2711-rpi-4-b.dtb . > $ diskutil unmount /dev/diskXXsY > $ hdiutil detach /dev/diskXX > $ qemu-system-aarch64 -machine raspi4b -dtb bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb -kernel 9pi4 \ > -drive file=9legacy.rpi,if=sd,format=raw \ > -append 'readparts=1 nobootprompt=local user=glenda' > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM Ben Huntsman <b...@huntsmans.net> wrote: >> >> Hi guys- >> I don't mean to take too much of a tangent, but since the nix-os repo >> includes a pre-built copy of 9vx for OSX, has anyone looked at updating 9vx >> to be able to compile on newer Mac OS versions? One of the big problems is >> that it's very 32-bit which Apple doesn't support compiling for anymore... >> >> Thank you! >> >> -Ben >> >> 9fans / 9fans / see discussions + participants + delivery options Permalink ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Ta0815af2ea24cbbc-M35d0b7771e6faa7b980fcc56 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
