Re: [9fans] I will buy laptop pre-installed with plan9!!!

2012-05-13 Thread Peter A. Cejchan
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Vincent Zhao wrote: > I will buy laptop pre-installed with plan9, can my dream come true? > I have a working Thinkpad T23 with 1400x1050 video, for years. The only trouble is that it needs a small program to restore video after the lid was closed. Works great for m

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-13 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sun, 13 May 2012 18:22:02 -0600 Burton Samograd wrote: > > 9bootfat does its search by walking all partition table > > entries (primary and secondary) on the bootdrive that > > are marked as "active". > > Reading the grub docs, it sounds like an active partition is marked > bootable and only

Re: [9fans] 5i floating point?

2012-05-13 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Wed, 9 May 2012 12:36:06 -0400 erik quanstrom wrote: > On Wed May 9 10:38:21 EDT 2012, cinap_len...@gmx.de wrote: > > aiju wrote an arm emulator for 9front some time ago and > > i remember he implemented floating point on it. > > why was it done this way rather than extending 5i? my memory

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-13 Thread erik quanstrom
> 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801IR/IO/IH (ICH9R/DO/DH) 6 port > SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02) > 03:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6101/6102 > single-port PATA133 interface (rev b1) i assume that you're attached to 00:1f:2, the sata controller due to the

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-13 Thread Burton Samograd
Attached is the output of lspci. I'll see if I can get it to fully boot to get the output of the other command. -- Burton On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 8:56 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Sun May 13 21:20:40 EDT 2012, burton.samog...@gmail.com wrote: >> Toggling the bootable flag on the plan9 partiti

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-13 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sun May 13 21:20:40 EDT 2012, burton.samog...@gmail.com wrote: > Toggling the bootable flag on the plan9 partition did allow it to start > booting. > It then looked to be iterating over the drives, where on my harddisks I got: > > sdE0 > bad disk > bad disk > bad disk > bad disk > bad disk i

Re: [9fans] Shiva/Guru Plug Support

2012-05-13 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sun May 13 15:27:58 EDT 2012, skip.tavakkol...@gmail.com wrote: > i have several (guru and sheeva) running plan9. they're configured as > cpu's and boot from a file server (x86 laptop auth+cpu+fs). > > i've had the most problems with power supplies on both models; going > by my sample size, the

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-13 Thread Burton Samograd
Toggling the bootable flag on the plan9 partition did allow it to start booting. It then looked to be iterating over the drives, where on my harddisks I got: sdE0 bad disk bad disk bad disk bad disk bad disk sdE5 bad disk bad disk bad disk bad disk bad disk This happened for both of my SATA har

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-13 Thread Burton Samograd
> 9bootfat does its search by walking all partition table > entries (primary and secondary) on the bootdrive that > are marked as "active". Reading the grub docs, it sounds like an active partition is marked bootable and only one partition can be marked that way. Currently my linux partition is m

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-13 Thread cinap_lenrek
the pbs managed to load 9bootfat but 9bootfat wasnt able to find the fat partition it came from. we pass 32bit lba's to the bios read sector routines, so theres nothing inside 9boot itself that would prevent this from working i think. 9bootfat does its search by walking all partition table entrie

[9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-13 Thread Burton Samograd
Hello I just installed 9front onto the second partition of my main SSD drive and when I boot using grub with 'chainloader +1' I get a PBS check which looks to pass and then the message 'no fat'. I am thinking that my installation might be out of sector range on the drive; I installed on the secon

Re: [9fans] Shiva/Guru Plug Support

2012-05-13 Thread Matthew Veety
On May 13, 2012, at 3:26 PM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > i have several (guru and sheeva) running plan9. they're configured as > cpu's and boot from a file server (x86 laptop auth+cpu+fs). > > i've had the most problems with power supplies on both models; going > by my sample size, they have a 25%

Re: [9fans] Shiva/Guru Plug Support

2012-05-13 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
i have several (guru and sheeva) running plan9. they're configured as cpu's and boot from a file server (x86 laptop auth+cpu+fs). i've had the most problems with power supplies on both models; going by my sample size, they have a 25% combined failure rate. -Skip On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 8:42 AM,

[9fans] Shiva/Guru Plug Support

2012-05-13 Thread Burton Samograd
Hello, I found the annoucement for Shiva plug support (http://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=125849399830547&w=2) and I was wondering what progress has been made with the port. I looked in /sys/src/9/kw and it looks like there has been more recent development, but could someone give me a quick summary of w