Re: [9fans] Booting from gefs on RPi without the dance?

2025-06-04 Thread experimentech
Sorry, I hadn't checked back in for a few days. I confirm the single quotes in CMDLINE.TXT works correctly. Thank you for the help, everybody. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T9327ef41fef3598f-Mc323d2834f0c74ce3bb174ba Deli

Re: [9fans] Booting from gefs on RPi without the dance?

2025-06-02 Thread Romano
experiment...@gmail.com: my mail delivery from this list is delayed so forgive if you have already confirmed it works. This was my cmdline.txt on my pi4 which worked: console=0 sysname=pipi service=cpu nvram=/dev/sdU5888f/nvram bootargs='local!/dev/sdU5888f/fscache -a tcp!*!564' So as has been

Re: [9fans] Booting from gefs on RPi without the dance?

2025-06-02 Thread ori
no, the raspberry pi bootloader is a special snowflake, so we need to use commandline.txt there. The solution is to quote the arguments in commandline.txt. As Paul said: nobootprompt='local!/dev/sdN0/fs -A' is most likely the way you do that. I don't currently have a raspberry pi set up

Re: [9fans] Booting from gefs on RPi without the dance?

2025-06-02 Thread Paul Lalonde
I'm afraid I'm still 36 hours away from being able to test this for real, but you should be able to, in your command line, just put that argument in single quotes: > > nobootprompt='local!/dev/sdN0/fs -A' If even doing it in your plan9.ini didn't work, then there's likely something more than jus

Re: [9fans] Booting from gefs on RPi without the dance?

2025-06-01 Thread experimentech
On Sunday, June 01, 2025, at 5:40 PM, flux wrote: > The workaround, such as it is, is to put the offending nobootargs into a > plan9.ini file If I understand you correctly, the part of cmdline.txt with nobootprompt=local!/dev/sdN0/fs -A should be moved to a newly created file called plan9.ini in

Re: [9fans] Booting from gefs on RPi without the dance?

2025-06-01 Thread Paul Lalonde
We'll, there's a code walk I should have taken to the next level. Paul On Sun, Jun 1, 2025, 2:44 p.m. Steve Simon wrote: > if its the libc tokenize(2) then it does shell like tokenizing (rc that > is) so you can use single quotes to quote stuff, and a double single quote > to embed one single q

Re: [9fans] Booting from gefs on RPi without the dance?

2025-06-01 Thread Steve Simon
if its the libc tokenize(2) then it does shell like tokenizing (rc that is) so you can use single quotes to quote stuff, and a double single quote to embed one single quote.-SteveOn 1 Jun 2025, at 8:41 am, f...@p9f.org wrote: I just reviewed the code that handles the command line on rpi where sys/

Re: [9fans] Booting from gefs on RPi without the dance?

2025-06-01 Thread flux
I just reviewed the code that handles the command line on rpi where sys/src/9/arm64/bootargs.c:/^plan9iniinit handles the command line by calling tokenize().  That splits the command line at spaces, without any sort of quoting. The workaround, such as it is, is to put the offending nobootargs in

Re: [9fans] Booting from gefs on RPi without the dance?

2025-05-31 Thread experimentech
I haven't been able to find anything that implies it's possible to incorporate a space into a command by any means. If this is the case it's a little troubling. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T9327ef41fef3598f-Ma28f62c42

Re: [9fans] Booting from gefs on RPi without the dance?

2025-05-29 Thread ori
Quoth experiment...@gmail.com: > So I have no idea what happened to it but many of the system executables were > missing. Too much functionality was lost so I backed up the files I'd changed > and reinstalled. Same issue so we might as well pretend it didn't happen. it > just caused a delay in m

Re: [9fans] Booting from gefs on RPi without the dance?

2025-05-28 Thread experimentech
So I have no idea what happened to it but many of the system executables were missing. Too much functionality was lost so I backed up the files I'd changed and reinstalled. Same issue so we might as well pretend it didn't happen. it just caused a delay in my replying. ori, cmdline.txt has: conso

Re: [9fans] Booting from gefs on RPi without the dance?

2025-05-26 Thread Stuart Morrow
When you do rm /srv/gefs* you also need to kill the running gefs or it'll hang around hoarding its 1GB of memory or whatever it is. So something like cd proc grep gefs */args echo kill | sed ' w 210/ctl w 211/ctl [etc]' (sed w being the closest thing to tee). ---

Re: [9fans] Booting from gefs on RPi without the dance?

2025-05-26 Thread ori
what are the contents of your commandline.txt(?) (I think that's the place where you configure your command line). The '-A' that you're adding there should be present. from what I remember, the commandline.txt format puts all args on one line, so perhaps there's some quoting needed? Quoth experim

[9fans] Booting from gefs on RPi without the dance?

2025-05-25 Thread experimentech
The only way I can get my Pi4 to boot from the gefs partition is to delete everything from /srv/gefs first. Using -Ac or even just -c doesn't help. It just churns through entries then after a couple of pages fails with a broken pipe. This is what I'm faced with every boot. I haven't got a clue

Re: [9fans] booting plan9 under bhyve

2018-05-06 Thread Kim Shrier
> On May 5, 2018, at 1:49 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > Has anyone has managed to boot any of the plan9 variants under FreeBSD's > bhyve hypervisor? Just curious to hear about any success/fail experiences. > > --lyndon > > I have 9front 6350 that I successfully booted under bhyve on fre

Re: [9fans] booting plan9 under bhyve

2018-05-05 Thread Bakul Shah
On Sat, 05 May 2018 12:49:34 -0700 Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > Has anyone has managed to boot any of the plan9 variants under FreeBSD's > bhyve hypervisor? Just curious to hear about any success/fail > experiences. Matthew Veety on 9fans on 27-Jan-2016: > I have a 9front cpu server running in bhyv

[9fans] booting plan9 under bhyve

2018-05-05 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
Has anyone has managed to boot any of the plan9 variants under FreeBSD's bhyve hypervisor? Just curious to hear about any success/fail experiences. --lyndon

Re: [9fans] Booting 9front using 9vx

2016-03-04 Thread Vasudev Kamath
hiro <23h...@gmail.com> writes: > Extract a Plan9 root file system (ISOs from official plan9, 9atom or > 9front all should work) into your directory of choice "/path/to/plan9" > (9vx defaults to the directory /usr/local/plan9vx) Thanks Hiro, extracting the rootfs from the ISO makes 9vx work. I wa

Re: [9fans] Booting 9front using 9vx

2016-03-04 Thread hiro
Extract a Plan9 root file system (ISOs from official plan9, 9atom or 9front all should work) into your directory of choice "/path/to/plan9" (9vx defaults to the directory /usr/local/plan9vx) On 3/2/16, Vasudev Kamath wrote: > > Hi, > > I was reading the Arch wiki on 9vx ¹ which said 9vx should/m

[9fans] Booting 9front using 9vx

2016-03-04 Thread Vasudev Kamath
Hi, I was reading the Arch wiki on 9vx ¹ which said 9vx should/might boot 9atom and 9front ISO also. So I thought of trying this out and executed the following command. 9vx -r ../images/9front-4796.018cb441d1b5.iso -u glenda "CWD=#Z`pwd`" "nvram=#Z`pwd`/9front.nvr" But I got the following err

Re: [9fans] booting 9pi terminal for 9front server

2014-07-29 Thread sl
> If I choose 9front machine as for network file/auth/cpu server (cwfs), > and try to boot Richard's 9pi terminal (fossil) but root from the server, > can I do it? Yes. sl

[9fans] booting 9pi terminal for 9front server

2014-07-29 Thread kokamoto
If I choose 9front machine as for network file/auth/cpu server (cwfs), and try to boot Richard's 9pi terminal (fossil) but root from the server, can I do it? Kenji

Re: [9fans] Booting amd64 9atom hangs on R60, T400 and T410

2014-02-17 Thread erik quanstrom
> On 2014-02-16 13:26, Aram Hăvărneanu wrote: > > I don't have any other machines to test this on. I *think* the same > > problem happens with a T410[3], but I might remember wrong. I can't > > test T410 right now. > > I own a T410 and tried Plan 9 on it a while ago. I there must be a > thread fro

Re: [9fans] Booting amd64 9atom hangs on R60, T400 and T410

2014-02-17 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 12:05 PM, wrote: > I own a T410 and tried Plan 9 on it a while ago. I there must be a > thread from back then on the mailing list. I was able to boot into > a live environment, but failed to install to disk. Yes, 32-bit Labs Plan 9 and 32-bit non-PAE 9atom Plan 9 work on

Re: [9fans] Booting amd64 9atom hangs on R60, T400 and T410

2014-02-17 Thread flo
On 2014-02-16 13:26, Aram Hăvărneanu wrote: I don't have any other machines to test this on. I *think* the same problem happens with a T410[3], but I might remember wrong. I can't test T410 right now. I own a T410 and tried Plan 9 on it a while ago. I there must be a thread from back then on th

Re: [9fans] Booting amd64 9atom hangs on R60, T400 and T410

2014-02-16 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
As a comparison, the new pc64 9front kernel works fine on these machines. -- Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] Booting amd64 9atom hangs on R60, T400 and T410

2014-02-16 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 1:46 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > are there any bios knobs that will change acpi settings on > either of these boxes? No, there are not, unfortunately. -- Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] Booting amd64 9atom hangs on R60, T400 and T410

2014-02-16 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sun Feb 16 07:28:11 EST 2014, ara...@mgk.ro wrote: > I am trying to boot Erik's amd64 USB install image[0] on a ThinkPad > R60[1] and T400[2]. > > Boot process hangs after printing: > cpu0: spurious interrupt 51, last 50 > cpu1: spurious interrupt 51, last 50 > > R60 picture: http://i.

[9fans] Booting amd64 9atom hangs on R60, T400 and T410

2014-02-16 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
I am trying to boot Erik's amd64 USB install image[0] on a ThinkPad R60[1] and T400[2]. Boot process hangs after printing: cpu0: spurious interrupt 51, last 50 cpu1: spurious interrupt 51, last 50 R60 picture: http://i.imgur.com/jaGOIbe.jpg T400 picture: http://i.imgur.com/WaYgrYM.jpg So

Re: [9fans] booting options for brand new installation [UPDATE]

2011-09-15 Thread Sasha and Tanya Kapshuk
On 09/15/2011 10:56 PM, Sasha and Tanya Kapshuk wrote: On 09/15/2011 12:57 AM, Richard Miller wrote: i want to boot plan9 using grub. My /boot/grub/menu.lst includes these lines: title Plan 9 root(hd0,1) chainloader +1 and the corresponding partition has /386/pbslba as a boot bl

Re: [9fans] booting options for brand new installation

2011-09-15 Thread Sasha and Tanya Kapshuk
On 09/15/2011 12:57 AM, Richard Miller wrote: i want to boot plan9 using grub. My /boot/grub/menu.lst includes these lines: title Plan 9 root(hd0,1) chainloader +1 and the corresponding partition has /386/pbslba as a boot block -- see format(8). thanks for the tip, R

Re: [9fans] booting

2011-09-15 Thread Noah Evans
Not yet, if you're willing to be a test subject head over to nix-dev and we can work through the steps for you and add a document explaining the process. Noah On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Christian Neukirchen wrote: > quans...@quanstro.net (erik quanstrom) writes: > >> does 9load do enough

Re: [9fans] booting

2011-09-15 Thread David du Colombier
> > does 9load do enough to boot the nix 64-bit kernel? > And are there instructions for bootstrapping such a nix system? > It builds fine here now, but I have no idea how/what to put on disk to > make it boot. The PXE bootloader seems to be in /sys/src/nix/w/pxeload. -- David du Colombier

Re: [9fans] booting

2011-09-15 Thread Noah Evans
No. Compile an npxeload from /sys/src/nix/w/pxeload. That should work. If it doesn't file an issue. Noah On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:27 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > does 9load do enough to boot the nix 64-bit kernel? > > - erik > >

Re: [9fans] booting

2011-09-15 Thread Christian Neukirchen
quans...@quanstro.net (erik quanstrom) writes: > does 9load do enough to boot the nix 64-bit kernel? > > - erik And are there instructions for bootstrapping such a nix system? It builds fine here now, but I have no idea how/what to put on disk to make it boot. -- Christian Neukirchenhttp://

[9fans] booting

2011-09-15 Thread erik quanstrom
does 9load do enough to boot the nix 64-bit kernel? - erik

Re: [9fans] booting options for brand new installation

2011-09-15 Thread Sasha and Tanya Kapshuk
thanks a lot. i'll give that a try. On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: > > i want to boot plan9 using grub. > > My /boot/grub/menu.lst includes these lines: > > title Plan 9 > root(hd0,1) > chainloader +1 > > and the corresponding partitio

Re: [9fans] booting options for brand new installation

2011-09-14 Thread Richard Miller
> i want to boot plan9 using grub. My /boot/grub/menu.lst includes these lines: title Plan 9 root(hd0,1) chainloader +1 and the corresponding partition has /386/pbslba as a boot block -- see format(8).

Re: [9fans] booting options for brand new installation

2011-09-14 Thread Sasha and Tanya Kapshuk
howdy, i've installed plan9 on a separate partition of my hard drive alongside debian linux. i'm not 100% clear on what boot option is best for a setting like this. i want to boot plan9 using grub. if that's not doable, can anyone please suggest an alternative way of doing it. sasha kapsh

[9fans] Booting plan9 kernel on olpc

2009-11-11 Thread Tim Newsham
I've played with booting the plan9 kernel on OLPC a little and simplified the boot process and the kernel changes needed. Here are the patches and instructions: http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/x/9/olpc/ And a question -- is it possible to use a usb key as a root filesystem? What's involved?

Re: [9fans] Booting with mk

2009-10-19 Thread Andy Spencer
> I'd like to check this out, but the server doesn't want to > talk to me. Is there a copy available elsewhere? Oops, that's rather embarrassing, sorry about that, that server has a few issues (oddly enough, it's sysvinit is broken). I posted tarball for the time begin at http://andy753421.ath.cx/

Re: [9fans] Booting with mk

2009-10-19 Thread Anthony Sorace
I'd like to check this out, but the server doesn't want to talk to me. Is there a copy available elsewhere?

[9fans] Booting with mk

2009-10-17 Thread Matthias Teege
My friend Mike and I were talking a while back about Unix init systems and came to the conclusion that mk's dependency tracking could come in handy. I decided to implement it a few days ago using plan9port and thought that some of the folks here might be interested. Although, I still haven't decide

Re: [9fans] Booting with mk

2009-10-16 Thread Andy Spencer
> Great idea, I like it :) I'll have a look at the code later. > You're using it on old unix/linux not plan 9 I guess? thanks. Yep, I'm running it on my ~4 year old laptop. I'm curious to see how it would compare on something newer though. I think it would still be I/O bound, so I'm not sure ho

Re: [9fans] Booting with mk

2009-10-16 Thread Sam Watkins
Great idea, I like it :) I'll have a look at the code later. You're using it on old unix/linux not plan 9 I guess? thanks. On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 05:54:12AM +, Andy Spencer wrote: > My friend Mike and I were talking a while back about Unix init systems > and came to the conclusion that mk's

Re: [9fans] Booting with mk

2009-10-15 Thread andrey mirtchovski
thanks for that. it is neat!

[9fans] Booting with mk

2009-10-15 Thread Andy Spencer
My friend Mike and I were talking a while back about Unix init systems and came to the conclusion that mk's dependency tracking could come in handy. I decided to implement it a few days ago using plan9port and thought that some of the folks here might be interested. Although, I still haven't decide

Re: [9fans] Booting plan9 on intel macs

2009-06-29 Thread J.R. Mauro
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > I accidentally installed a FreeBSD drive in my MacBook. To my surprise, > it just worked. If you install a boot drive with the "usual" PC disk > partitioning the Macs will boot in what seems to be a fairly complete > BIOS emulation. > > How

Re: [9fans] Booting plan9 on intel macs

2009-06-29 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
I accidentally installed a FreeBSD drive in my MacBook. To my surprise, it just worked. If you install a boot drive with the "usual" PC disk partitioning the Macs will boot in what seems to be a fairly complete BIOS emulation. How far Plan9 gets is another story, but my guess is that even if it se

Re: [9fans] Booting plan9 on intel macs

2009-06-29 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
2009/6/29 David Leimbach : > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Devon H. O'Dell > wrote: >> >> 2009/6/29 Brad Frank : >> > What kinds of modifications would be necessary to get plan9 booting on >> > intel macs? The latest releases don't seem to boot, they just hang. >> >> EFI, at a minimum. >> > > W

Re: [9fans] Booting plan9 on intel macs

2009-06-29 Thread David Leimbach
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > 2009/6/29 Brad Frank : > > What kinds of modifications would be necessary to get plan9 booting on > > intel macs? The latest releases don't seem to boot, they just hang. > > EFI, at a minimum. > > What of rEFIt or Boot Camp? They have BIOS

Re: [9fans] Booting plan9 on intel macs

2009-06-29 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
2009/6/29 Brad Frank : > What kinds of modifications would be necessary to get plan9 booting on > intel macs? The latest releases don't seem to boot, they just hang. EFI, at a minimum.

[9fans] Booting plan9 on intel macs

2009-06-29 Thread Brad Frank
What kinds of modifications would be necessary to get plan9 booting on intel macs? The latest releases don't seem to boot, they just hang.

Re: [9fans] Booting plan9 from an iSCSI disk

2008-10-22 Thread Gabriel Diaz Lopez de la Llave
Hello I just need to boot the kenel, this machine is rented, i can't change any hardware configuration, i can just try to get plan9 running there with the help of qemu. . . I installed a fossil terminal, now i need to instruct 9load to read the kernel from /dev/sdB0, and if the kernel lo

Re: [9fans] Booting plan9 from an iSCSI disk

2008-10-22 Thread Sergey Zhilkin
Hi ! Use 9P instead of iSCSI. In My setup, I use small IDE Flash drives (128Mb) They works just fine ! :) 2008/10/20 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hola, > > Has anyone done this? > > I have access to a cheap hardware which could be a nice plan9 cpu server, > the only thing does not work > is the iSCSI d

[9fans] Booting plan9 from an iSCSI disk

2008-10-20 Thread gdiaz
Hola, Has anyone done this? I have access to a cheap hardware which could be a nice plan9 cpu server, the only thing does not work is the iSCSI disk (or i think so, look at the lspci below) I suppose the bios of the machine supports booting from iSCSI, so i think i could put a 9load or 9pxel