Re: [9fans] Cannot boot plan9

2014-04-01 Thread erik quanstrom
> I've attached image of the result of the command. I hope that soon I will be > able to > attach it in plain text format :). I'm afraid that my Ethernet card is not > recognised too. > Can you recommend any PCI Ethernet card that is known to be working under > Plan 9? anything intel gigabit+p

Re: [9fans] Cannot boot plan9

2014-03-21 Thread erik quanstrom
> As an aside, why don't we have an architecture like this? (From your > comment, I'm assuming we don't.) > I'm sure there are valid technical reasons, but to an uneducated bystander > like myself, this seems to violate DRY. because at least in the case of the linux disk layers, it makes the code

Re: [9fans] Cannot boot plan9

2014-03-21 Thread Alex Jordan
On Mar 17, 2014 3:34 PM, "erik quanstrom" wrote: > linux sata drivers can be harder to clone since so much of the work is done > in a series of generic layers. and they can take a while to digest. As an aside, why don't we have an architecture like this? (From your comment, I'm assuming we don't.

Re: [9fans] Cannot boot plan9

2014-03-21 Thread erik quanstrom
> Ok, now it's working. I'm not sure why it doesn't work last time(maybe I > was doing something wrong). But now I have several more questions about > this image: easy for little errors to creep in when one is unsure of the details. (as i'm experiencing right now with something else.) > At first

Re: [9fans] Cannot boot plan9

2014-03-21 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
> > because when I boot > > the system from the image you have given me I cannot save any file. Does > > plan9 support saving the state of live session? > > that's a bit surprising. > > try > echo >/lib/emptyfile > > does that yield an error? Ok, now it's working. I'm not sure why it doesn

Re: [9fans] Cannot boot plan9

2014-03-18 Thread erik quanstrom
> Do you think that there is a point in trying to solve it? Where should I > start when I would like to fix this issue. Is it easy or rather hard > task? How does the develop process looks like when doing such things? i think this is a hard question to answer. on the one hand, i don't want to be

Re: [9fans] Cannot boot plan9

2014-03-18 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
> > 0.6.0 disk 01.01.8a 10de/03ec 0 4:ffa1 16 0.8.0 disk 01.01.85 > > 10de/03f6 5 0:d401 16 1:d081 16 2:d001 16 3:cc01 16 > > 4:c881 16 5:deefc000 4096 > > > > But I have no idea what does it means. I hope you will know. > > i do. this is an nvidia sata part, which is no

Re: [9fans] Cannot boot plan9

2014-03-18 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Mar 18 10:33:08 EDT 2014, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote: > yep. sorry, wrong assumptions on my side. i only > have reports of MCP51 working, but not MCP61. i believe both work since iirc, i had a mcp61 motherboard, and used the ide interface. iirc, nvidia is not like intel. the ide inter

Re: [9fans] Cannot boot plan9

2014-03-18 Thread cinap_lenrek
yep. sorry, wrong assumptions on my side. i only have reports of MCP51 working, but not MCP61. -- cinap

Re: [9fans] Cannot boot plan9

2014-03-18 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Mar 18 06:53:05 EDT 2014, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote: > this device is a ata controller that might just work with > plan9's generic ata driver (given you add the pci id). > i checked 9front sdide.c which has the pci id for the controller: > > case (0x03ec<<16)|0x10DE:

Re: [9fans] Cannot boot plan9

2014-03-18 Thread cinap_lenrek
this device is a ata controller that might just work with plan9's generic ata driver (given you add the pci id). i checked 9front sdide.c which has the pci id for the controller: case (0x03ec<<16)|0x10DE: /* nVidia nForce 61 MCP SATA */ we add these pci id's as we encounter

Re: [9fans] Cannot boot plan9

2014-03-17 Thread erik quanstrom
> 0.6.0 disk 01.01.8a 10de/03ec 0 4:ffa1 16 0.8.0 disk 01.01.85 > 10de/03f6 5 0:d401 16 1:d081 16 2:d001 16 3:cc01 16 > 4:c881 16 5:deefc000 4096 > > But I have no idea what does it means. I hope you will know. i do. this is an nvidia sata part, which is not currently su

Re: [9fans] Cannot boot plan9

2014-03-17 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 12:14:17PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Sun Mar 16 12:06:39 EDT 2014, szymon.olewnic...@rid.pl wrote: > > > Hi, > > today I've tried to boot plan9 on my computer. Sadly withou a success. > > I'm attaching screenshot of my computer after typing ctrl+t ctrl+t p. > > > >

Re: [9fans] Cannot boot plan9

2014-03-16 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sun Mar 16 12:06:39 EDT 2014, szymon.olewnic...@rid.pl wrote: > Hi, > today I've tried to boot plan9 on my computer. Sadly withou a success. > I'm attaching screenshot of my computer after typing ctrl+t ctrl+t p. > > Do you know is going on? How can I fix it? I woud like to run Plan 9 > before