Re: [9fans] plan9 iso image cont.
When I tried booting 9front, it didn't give me any options until it got to the bootargs line, where it froze. I'll get back to 9front later. I am interested, but my system is completly borked right now. When I had tried the vanilla plan9.iso, I was trying the "boot from cd" option, and it was freezing right away. So... I figured I had two primary partitions unused, one of which I planned to install plan9 to anyway, why not see if the "install to hard drive" option would work? My everyday system is openSuSE 12.3 as such: /dev/sda1 - fat16 - A fat partition containing Dell stuff. /dev/sda2 - ext2 - Set aside for plan9. /dev/sda3 - ext2 - Empty. /dev/sda4 - The extended part. /dev/sda5 - linux-swap /dev/sda6 - ext3 - An old, unused distro, has a lot of backup files I need to save. /dev/sda7 - (was ext4) - '/' my system partition. /dev/sda8 - (was ext4) - '/home' /dev/sda9 - (was ext3) - '/music' - - - - - - - 89.35 GiB unallocated You'll note the three partitions that say "was ext4" or "ext3"!! Also, I was using grub2 as the boot loader. You'll note again the use of "was". Prior to openSuSE 12.3, I'd never used grub2. I can swear there is a way to use grub2 to install a new system. Grub2 was not installed to the mbr, but actually on the extended part. Maybe it actually uses the mbr to point to it's location on the extended part, I'm not sure. Also, the / and /home parts were/are ext4. I figured, "what the heck" I'll try the install of plan9, and if it whacks grub2, so be it. I'll reinstall grub2, and all will be good. The install to hard drive option seemed to work great. Until I got to the "mountdist" portion. It didn't seem to want to use /dev/sdD0/data. I figured I'd point it at the plan9.iso image on /dev/sda8/ partition. Due to the unfamiliar naming scheme, I wasn't positive which partition I wanted, so I tried LINUX4, LINUX5, and LINUX6. The install program told me they were all empty. No problem, I thought, I'll go back to openSuSE and move a copy of plan9.iso to /dev/sda3 and while I'm at it copy the contents out of the iso image to /dev/sda3 as well. Reboot. No bootable partitions... uh oh. Ok, no problem, I'll reinstall grub2. Two hours go by. Can't figure out how to reinstall grub2. Alright, guess I'll have to reinstall openSuSE. Oh no! The DVD is slightly damaged, the so called rescue portion boots, but there are about 50 errors trying to install... give up for the night. This is great stuff, right? lol. This morning I break out my trusty knoppix 5.3.1 dvd. Boot up. Connect to the net, and here I am. Too bad knoppix 5.3.1 does not speak ext4. Darn. So, my mission for today(or this weekend) is to recover the three whacked partitions, recover grub2, then figure out the best way to complete the plan9 install and get grub2 to play nice with plan9. Also, I'd planned to add a cd drive to this mach, but I had forgotten that it's sata and all the cd or dvd drives I have are ata. Curses! Foiled again!! Terry. On 6/28/13, Paul A. Patience wrote: > did you enable *acpi= when booting 9front? > see the section Boot at [1]. > > pap > > [1] http://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wiki/troubleshooting > >
Re: [9fans] plan9 iso image cont.
yeah... pressed enter pressed lots of keys... 9front will have to wait for now, but thanks for the advice. Terry. On 6/28/13, s...@9front.org wrote: >> 9front.iso - never gave me an option to run from cd or install, it >> just started launching itself. >> Several screens of info and it stop on this line: >> bootargs is (tcp, il, local!device)[local!dev/sdD0/data] _ >>> Press enter. > > -sl > >
[9fans] Install Advice requested
I created a partition and started the plan9 install using plan9.iso. It was an incomplete install, and I had some other problems from which I've recovered. 8^) I created a directory on the plan9 partition named iso, then copied plan9.iso to that dir. Can anyone provide some guidance regarding completing the install without allowing plan9 to mark its partition as the boot partition? Once the install is complete, if I need to reinstall grub2 I know how now. What do I tell grub2 to point to on the plan9 partition to add it to my grub2 menu? And can anyone recommend any boot options I may need to set? Thank you in advance, Terry.
Re: [9fans] Install Advice requested
On Jun 29, 2013, at 21:30, Terry Wendt wrote: > I created a partition and started the plan9 install using plan9.iso. > It was an incomplete install, and I had some other problems from which > I've recovered. 8^) > > I created a directory on the plan9 partition named iso, then copied > plan9.iso to that dir. > > Can anyone provide some guidance regarding completing the install > without allowing plan9 to mark its partition as the boot partition? > > Once the install is complete, if I need to reinstall grub2 I know how > now. What do I tell grub2 to point to on the plan9 partition to add > it to my grub2 menu? And can anyone recommend any boot options I may > need to set? > > Thank you in advance, > Terry. > You can tell it not to install the mbr. Also you can chain load it similar to windows with grub2.
Re: [9fans] Install Advice requested
I'm a glutton for pain. First, it wasn't the plan9.iso, but the 9athom.iso. I think the original problem occured by exiting(Ctrl+Alt+Del) before the install was done. I guess I should have used Ctrl-d to stop the process I was in. Anyway, after exiting the install program and rebooting I discovered that 3 of my partitions got whacked. I used a live knoppix disc to boot up, get online and get a tool to repair the borked partitions(testdisk). Well, that worked well. Next, used my openSuS rescue dvd to reinstall grub2, and got everything back up. I copied the plan9.iso over to the plan9 partition, and even copied all the files and directories as well. Remember though, I actually was installing from the 9atom.iso... genius. I finally figured out how to setup grub2 for plan 9. Then I kept getting the same error over and over trying to boot into that partition: "error: invalid signature". Went into fdisk and toggled the partition TYPE flag to 0x39, done. At this point, I could boot from grub2 into plan9, but of course the install wasn't complete. This is where the pain begins again. Insert 9atom.iso. Reboot. The install picked up where it left off. Got all the to [copydist]. It was in the middle of this that it ran out of room! Oh yeah, that copy of plan9.iso sitting there and it was only a 1.1GB partition. Control-D my way out, go back into openSuSE and try to go into the plan9 partition to delete the iso file - nope, that wasn't gonna happen, there were only 3 or 4 files there??? I guess the rest of the filesystem couldn't be seen... ok, no problem. Delete the partition, double the size to 2.2GB. Reboot using the 9atom.iso, and start the install. Now, for some reason, 9atom doesn't like the partition? Do I control-d my way out I ask? Of course not - control-alt-delete. Reboot. Grub can't find a bootable partition... Yep, whacked my system again. The real strange thing is its all the linux partitions on the extend partition? Very strange. So here I am again in knoppix, doing it all over again. But I must admit, I learn a lot via these sessions of self-abuse. 8^0 It would be nice if it wouldn't do that by exiting the install in a way it doesn't like. Maybe it could intercept that trio of keys(control-alt-del) and produce the control-d itself?? Ok, wish me luck, I'm going in. Terry.
