Re: [9fans] Problem Installing Hellaphone on Nexus S

2011-10-17 Thread John Floren
Well, to start with, I'm an idiot. The commands should look like this: # stop zygote # stop media # /system/bin/mediaserver-inferno & # /data/inferno/Android/arm/bin/emu-g There's no such service as "mediaserver", but the "stop" command sure won't tell you that! When I actually went in and tested

Re: [9fans] Problem Installing Hellaphone on Nexus S

2011-10-17 Thread Jesper Vesterberg
I started of with fixing cyanogenmod then i went on and thought i might just aswell start with the inferno-boot.img, might been a weird approach esp. since i can see if the system works without the boot image to start with. Didn't thought it matter what way i went on about, but i might surely be mi

Re: [9fans] Problem Installing Hellaphone on Nexus S

2011-10-17 Thread John Floren
At Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:43:11 +0200, Jesper Vesterberg wrote: > > It seems the script created boot-inferno.img is no good, after i push > it over neither > android nor inferno wanna boot. The inferno bit is less suprising, since i > haven't built it and pushed /data/inferno over. Android on the oth

Re: [9fans] New disk, i/o error

2011-10-17 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
do you find you need swap to run plan 9 on these systems? Nope -- a testament to the system. But that doesn't negate the fact that 'throw more hardware at it' isn't always an option.

Re: [9fans] New disk, i/o error

2011-10-17 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Oct 17 11:45:26 EDT 2011, lyn...@orthanc.ca wrote: > > this is not such a pain as it might appear, swapping makes performance > > so miserable its not really worth having, especially given how cheap a > > few GB of RAM is these days. > > Not always an option on, say, PC-104 systems. do you

Re: [9fans] New disk, i/o error

2011-10-17 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
this is not such a pain as it might appear, swapping makes performance so miserable its not really worth having, especially given how cheap a few GB of RAM is these days. Not always an option on, say, PC-104 systems.

Re: [9fans] New disk, i/o error

2011-10-17 Thread David du Colombier
> Will this work: > > 1. boot off the old disk (/dev/sdE0/plan9) > 2. disk/prep /dev/sdE1/plan9 > - delete swap and fossil > - create a new fossil at the same offset as the old one but bigger > - write changes > 3. mount /dev/sdE1/fossil > > I am trying to find a way to resize /dev/sd

Re: [9fans] New disk, i/o error

2011-10-17 Thread David du Colombier
> > Why did prep create a 512MB swap > > partition when I have 2GB RAM? > > good question, though on a positive note swap doesn't work anyway > (except on the 9front form) so I would delete it as if the machine > starts to swak it could wedge. > > this is not such a pain as it might appear, swapp

Re: [9fans] New disk, i/o error

2011-10-17 Thread slash
> How did you used disk/prep? I ran 'disk/prep -bw -a^(9fat nvram fossil swap) /dev/sdE1/plan9'. When I ran it, my old disk was sdE0 and the new was sdE1. Now I notice the layout prep created is identical on both disks! su# disk/prep /dev/sdE0/plan9 # old 9fat0 204800 (

Re: [9fans] New disk, i/o error

2011-10-17 Thread Steve Simon
> Can I grow fossil on the fly? I don't believe you can, fossil is usually used with venti and venti can definitely be grown on the fly, fossil alone is normally confined to just laptops where this is not an issue. > Why did prep create a 512MB swap > partition when I have 2GB RAM? good questi

[9fans] Problem Installing Hellaphone on Nexus S

2011-10-17 Thread Jesper Vesterberg
It seems the script created boot-inferno.img is no good, after i push it over neither android nor inferno wanna boot. The inferno bit is less suprising, since i haven't built it and pushed /data/inferno over. Android on the other hand is. I am using the cyanogen mod 7.1 and if i click the white sc

Re: [9fans] New disk, i/o error

2011-10-17 Thread David du Colombier
> Indeed! > > su# disk/prep /dev/sdE0/plan9 > 9fat 0 204800(204800 sectors, 100.00 MB) > nvram 204800 204801(1 sectors, 512 B ) > fossil 204801 389668226 (389463425 sectors, 185.71 > GB) swap 389668226 390716802