Re: [9fans] running in AMDs simnow

2008-05-14 Thread ron minnich
I love it. 9load is dying in real mode on: 1000:012C B80800 mov ax,0008 1000:012F 8ED8 mov ds,ax ^^^ takes a triple fault, which is interesting, as vm is not on. But this is kind of intriguing because that's not how I recal

Re: [9fans] running in AMDs simnow

2008-05-13 Thread erik quanstrom
> sorry if it sounded that way, I did not meant that. > It's just that as you once told me yourself, the fixes you make > sometimes never end up in the default distribution, either because you > forget or because as you point out below, it goes into contrib. > > What is the rationale between stuff

Re: [9fans] running in AMDs simnow

2008-05-13 Thread lejatorn
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 07:10:20PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > So yes, with the help of Erik I managed to bake a bootable iso for > > this ibm eserver 325 I have here, which seems to behave in a pretty > > similar way to the one you describe here (look for the thread "plan 9 > > on an ibm eser

Re: [9fans] running in AMDs simnow

2008-05-13 Thread lejatorn
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 03:59:45PM -0700, ron minnich wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:13 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > mount /srv/9660 /n/9660 /dev/sdC0/data > > This one lost me completely. /dev/sdC0/data? That's an iso on your system? Yeah sorry, I suspected it would not be obvious

Re: [9fans] running in AMDs simnow

2008-05-13 Thread erik quanstrom
> So yes, with the help of Erik I managed to bake a bootable iso for > this ibm eserver 325 I have here, which seems to behave in a pretty > similar way to the one you describe here (look for the thread "plan 9 > on an ibm eserver 325). > > I'm attaching the 9load I used for that iso, which incide

Re: [9fans] running in AMDs simnow

2008-05-13 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:13 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mount /srv/9660 /n/9660 /dev/sdC0/data This one lost me completely. /dev/sdC0/data? That's an iso on your system? ron

Re: [9fans] running in AMDs simnow

2008-05-13 Thread Bakul Shah
On Tue, 13 May 2008 13:55:43 PDT "ron minnich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to get plan 9 to boot in AMDs simnow as part of tracking a > weird problem. > > There's some weird issue between simnow and 9load. > > Here is what happens, on floppy or iso: > initial probe, to find plan9.ini

Re: [9fans] running in AMDs simnow

2008-05-13 Thread erik quanstrom
> I'm trying to get plan 9 to boot in AMDs simnow as part of tracking a > weird problem. > > There's some weird issue between simnow and 9load. > > Here is what happens, on floppy or iso: > initial probe, to find plan9.ini... > > I then see 661,504 reads (in the case of the ISO) or few number of

[9fans] running in AMDs simnow

2008-05-13 Thread ron minnich
I'm trying to get plan 9 to boot in AMDs simnow as part of tracking a weird problem. There's some weird issue between simnow and 9load. Here is what happens, on floppy or iso: initial probe, to find plan9.ini... I then see 661,504 reads (in the case of the ISO) or few number of reads (in the cas