Re: [9fans] plan 9 on an IBM eserver 325

2008-04-29 Thread Mathieu Lonjaret
pc=0x3 On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:16 PM, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Heh, you got me there. It's just that I was too lazy to rewrite all the > > stuff by hand. I only compared what was on the screen to that previous > > message and when I saw the value were the same I pasted aga

Re: [9fans] plan 9 on an IBM eserver 325

2008-04-29 Thread erik quanstrom
> Heh, you got me there. It's just that I was too lazy to rewrite all the > stuff by hand. I only compared what was on the screen to that previous > message and when I saw the value were the same I pasted again the old > message. But I had indeed noticed that line was absent. > So yeah, with the o

Re: [9fans] plan 9 on an IBM eserver 325

2008-04-29 Thread lejatorn
Heh, you got me there. It's just that I was too lazy to rewrite all the stuff by hand. I only compared what was on the screen to that previous message and when I saw the value were the same I pasted again the old message. But I had indeed noticed that line was absent. So yeah, with the old 9load t

Re: [9fans] plan 9 on an IBM eserver 325

2008-04-29 Thread erik quanstrom
> ELCR: 0C80 > apm ax=f000 cx=f000 dx=40 di= ebx=5d84 esi=-1 > initial probe, to find plan9.ini... dev A0 port 1F0 config 0040 > capabilities 2F00 mwdma 0007 udma 407F > dev A0 port 170 config 85C0 capabilities 2F00 mwdma 0007 udma 0407 > FLAGS=10282 TRAP=6 ECODE=0 PC=3 > AX BX 80815d

Re: [9fans] plan 9 on an IBM eserver 325

2008-04-29 Thread Mathieu Lonjaret
So, back to this issue. I've finally figured out how to make a bootable iso ( for future search in the archives: /n/sources/contrib/maht/rc/mkiso , /sys/lib/dist/pc/mkfile , and http://maht0x0r.blogspot.com/2007/11/roll-your-own-plan9-iso.html were pretty much the only useful docs I could find on t

Re: [9fans] plan 9 on an IBM eserver 325

2008-04-24 Thread Federico G. Benavento
2 years ago, someone had a similar problem, so I modified 9load so people could set and edit the variables at boot time, the code is on sources /n/sources/contrib/fgb/tar/9load.tgz here's a post explaining how it worked. http://9fans.net/archive/2005/12/70 -- Federico G. Benavento

Re: [9fans] plan 9 on an IBM eserver 325

2008-04-24 Thread erik quanstrom
> Nope, I haven't tried yet because that requires that I make myself a > new iso, and I'm uncertain as how to proceed for that. Shall I mount > the current iso, copy everything on some temporary location, locate > where plan9.ini is, modify it, and just create an iso9660 fs from that > temporary t

Re: [9fans] plan 9 on an IBM eserver 325

2008-04-24 Thread Mathieu Lonjaret
Nope, I haven't tried yet because that requires that I make myself a new iso, and I'm uncertain as how to proceed for that. Shall I mount the current iso, copy everything on some temporary location, locate where plan9.ini is, modify it, and just create an iso9660 fs from that temporary tree? Thx

Re: [9fans] plan 9 on an IBM eserver 325

2008-04-24 Thread a
> Erik said I should try with a 9load from may 2007 or earlier, so I was > wondering if anyone of you had one handy, or if there's a way to obtain > one easily (mounting an old snapshot?)? In addition to the one erik's now posted for you, you can get at the archived snapshots on sources from any n

Re: [9fans] plan 9 on an IBM eserver 325

2008-04-24 Thread erik quanstrom
> Erik said I should try with a 9load from may 2007 or earlier, so I was > wondering if anyone of you had one handy, or if there's a way to obtain > one easily (mounting an old snapshot?)? Or any other suggestion to have > the iso booting a bit further? did you try with *nobiosload? i put an old