[9fans] 9atom boot error on Gigabyte GA-H55M-USB3 with Intel i3-540

2010-10-04 Thread slash
hard disk is connected to the first SATA port on the motherboard. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. slash

Re: [9fans] 9atom boot error on Gigabyte GA-H55M-USB3 with Intel i3-540

2010-10-05 Thread slash
starting /bin/rc sdE0: LLBA 390,721,968 sectors SAMSUNG SP2004C VM100-32 S07GJ10Y522190 [newdrive] sdF0: bad led type 0 mouseport is (ps2, ps2intellimouse, 0, 1, 2)[ps2]: vgasize [640x480x8]: 1600x1200x8 monitor is [xga]: i8042: 28 returned to the f5 command usb/kb... There is no ether device for the onboard NIC. slash

[9fans] ANSI/POSIX port of aux/vga - where to find?

2011-05-20 Thread slash
The wiki says "The Plan 9 updates page contains an ANSI/POSIX port of aux/vga that is useful only for dumping registers on various systems." I am having trouble finding this tool. Any pointers? slash

[9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk

2011-09-23 Thread slash
I am about to upgrade the disk on my cpu/disk server to a bigger one, and I want to maintain all the data. What is the most elegant way to do this? The new disk is blank.

Re: [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk

2011-09-29 Thread slash
> Do you use Fossil with or without Venti? > There is many way to do it. > > Without Venti, you could use replica(1) to copy your file system > from the old Fossil to the new Fossil. Fossil without Venti. Work has kept me busy but now I finally managed to attach the new drive to the system. Plan9

Re: [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk

2011-10-01 Thread slash
> if you (slash) could just grab the atazz binary > (ftp://ftp.quanstro.net/other/8.atazz) > and send me the output of >        echo 'identify device' | 8.atazz -r >[2=] /dev/sdE0 > /tmp/somefile > that would be great.  thanks! Here you go. Again, sdE0 is the

Re: [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk

2011-10-01 Thread slash
>        echo 'identify device' | 8.atazz -r /dev/sdE0 > /tmp/somefile > > would be better Here goes. sdE0.out Description: Binary data sdE1.out Description: Binary data

Re: [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk

2011-10-03 Thread slash
> the way to interpret this information is you may use 512 > byte sectors if you really want to suffer terrible performance > (usually 1/3 the normal performance for reasonablly random > workloads.) That doesn't sound tempting at all. I am still within Amazon's return window. Can anyone recommend

Re: [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk

2011-10-07 Thread slash
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:35 AM, Peter A. Cejchan wrote: > i use WD Caviar Green model WD20EARS (2TB SATA II) without any problems. I > installed from erik's 9atom.iso Did you toggle any jumpers on the drive? I finally gave up and returned it. A new day, a new disk (with 512 byte sectors). I ins

Re: [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk

2011-10-09 Thread slash
> i think disk/mkfs is nearly idea for this, and isn't very dangerous.  since > your > new fossil will start empty, you can't overwrite anything in the old fs. How do I generate the proto file? Do I have to go through an archive? Thank you for your patience.

Re: [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk

2011-10-10 Thread slash
> that's a good question.  if you just want to copy everything, i use the shell > idiom >        disk/mkfs <{echo +} I ran this in /usr/bootes/ as bootes: su# disk/mkfs -a -s / <{echo +} > arch processing /fd/7 mkfs: /fd/7:1: can't open //dev/consctl: '//dev/consctl' permission denied mkfs:

Re: [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk

2011-10-11 Thread slash
> you're not the first person to make this mistake, so i should > have remembered this problem.  sorry. Please don't apologize. You are the one guiding the blind. > you need to mount both new and old afresh in /n/ and copy > using your destination as /n/new and source as /n/old.  using > / as you

Re: [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk

2011-10-11 Thread slash
snarf-paste error. the command was: su# disk/mkfs -s /n/old -d /n/new -U -r <{echo +}

Re: [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk

2011-10-11 Thread slash
> Now let's see if it boots. Almost there. I took out the old drive and made the new one sdE0. It started booting, until: fossil(#S/sdE0/fossil)... fsOpen: can't find /dev/sdE1/fossil ... panic Does fossil store the device name somewhere on the disk? (The drive was sdE1 when I formatted it.) How

Re: [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk

2011-10-12 Thread slash
> fossil/conf /dev/sdE0/fossil > fossil.conf > fossil/conf -w /dev/sdE0/fossil fossil.conf This was exactly what I needed. Thank you! My migration from old to new drive is now complete.

[9fans] ext2srv understands only 7bit ASCII file names?

2011-10-13 Thread slash
I have some files on an external ext2 drive that have whitespace and umlauts (ä, ö) in them. trfs took care of the whitespace. But ext2srv presents umlauts as a question mark symbol (�) and won't let me access the file (error: file does not exist). Where is the problem? These files show correctly

Re: [9fans] ext2srv understands only 7bit ASCII file names?

2011-10-13 Thread slash
> if you know what the charset on disk is, you could probablly hack ext2fs > into translating names.  or (less hacky) you could write a transliterating fs, > or add this to trfs' duties. Thank you. So now I know ext2srv is not doing any file name conversion. Good. Say I wanted to add the followin

Re: [9fans] ext2srv understands only 7bit ASCII file names?

2011-10-16 Thread slash
> unicode codepoints (runes) are abstract.  we need to deal with encodings. > the encoding utf-8 uses is not a single byte for anything above 0x7f. > so essentially the encoding phase would be name[i] = (uchar)r.  the decoding > phase > would be r = (Rune)name[i]. Thank you. I modified trfs.c and

[9fans] New disk, i/o error

2011-10-16 Thread slash
I began consolidating files with great joy from external ext2 disks to the new 2 TB fossil drive using trfs.latin1. After only 300 or so gigabytes I saw this on the console: fossil: diskWriteRaw failed: /dev/sdE0/fossil: score 0x016d1415: data Sun Oct 16 09:37:58 EDT 2011 part=data block 23925781:

Re: [9fans] New disk, i/o error

2011-10-16 Thread slash
> i've also had trouble with usb disks. The errors come from sdE0 which is connected to sata port on the motherboard. Even when there are no usb disks attached at all. su# cat /dev/sdE0/ctl inquiry Hitachi HDS5C3020ALA632 model   Hitachi HDS5C3020ALA632 serial  ML0220FL0220F313JE2D firm    ML6OA5

Re: [9fans] New disk, i/o error

2011-10-16 Thread slash
> dd -if /dev/sdE0/fossil -of /dev/null -bs 512k  # or whatever partition. No errors, but I noticed it stopped just before 200 gigabytes. The total size of the plan9 partition is 1.81 terabytes. A related question: how should I interpret /dev/sdE0/fossil file size? # ls -l /dev/sdE0/fossil --rw-

Re: [9fans] New disk, i/o error

2011-10-16 Thread slash
> No errors, but I noticed it stopped just before 200 gigabytes. I kept reading the disk and got several read errors. Here is the first one: fossil: diskReadRaw failed: /dev/sdE0/fossil: score 0x016d1389: part=data block 23925641: eof reading disk Bad sector or something else?

Re: [9fans] New disk, i/o error

2011-10-16 Thread slash
> to me that looks like a mismatch between fossil's expectations for the > partition and that actual partition size.  i think you're just reading past > the end of the partition. Indeed! su# disk/prep /dev/sdE0/plan9 9fat 0 204800(204800 sectors, 100.00 MB) nvram

Re: [9fans] New disk, i/o error

2011-10-17 Thread slash
> How did you used disk/prep? I ran 'disk/prep -bw -a^(9fat nvram fossil swap) /dev/sdE1/plan9'. When I ran it, my old disk was sdE0 and the new was sdE1. Now I notice the layout prep created is identical on both disks! su# disk/prep /dev/sdE0/plan9 # old 9fat0 204800 (

[9fans] wildcard dns cname

2011-12-04 Thread slash
I have the following wildcard entry in my /lib/ndb/local: cname=server.local dom=*.local Essentially I want every name to resolve back to my server. Now, ndb/dnsdebug is able to resolve any host just fine: cpu% ndb/dnsdebug > foobar answer server.local

Re: [9fans] wildcard dns cname

2011-12-04 Thread slash
Yes ping works and I can also make nslookups for hosts that don't match the wildcard. $ nslookup server.local Server: 10.0.0.1 Address: 10.0.0.1#53 Name: server.local Address: 10.0.0.1 $ nslookup other.local Server: 10.0.0.1 Address: 10.0.0.1#53 Name: other.local Address: 10.0.0.2 snoopy confi

Re: [9fans] wildcard dns cname

2011-12-04 Thread slash
> > where is your soa record? /lib/ndb/local: dom=local soa= refresh=3600 ttl=3600 ns=server.local mb=em...@abcxyz.com

Re: [9fans] wildcard dns cname

2011-12-04 Thread slash
ndb/dnsquery also fails for wildcard names but works for real ones: cpu% ndb/dnsquery > f !dns: resource does not exist; negrcode 0 > bar !dns: resource does not exist; negrcode 0 > server server.local ip 10.0.0.1 > other other.local ip 10.0.0.2 Why do dnsquery and dnsdebug give different res

Re: [9fans] wildcard dns cname

2011-12-04 Thread slash
> > > ndb/dnsquery also fails for wildcard names but works for real ones: > > cpu% ndb/dnsquery > > f > !dns: resource does not exist; negrcode 0 > > bar > !dns: resource does not exist; negrcode 0 > > server > server.local ip 10.0.0.1 > > other > other.local ip 10.0.0.2 > > Why do dnsquery and

[9fans] 9legacy Raspberry Pi HDMI video questions

2024-04-05 Thread slash 9fans
Dear 9fans, I am booting my Raspberry Pi 4B off the 9legacy SD card image (http://www.9legacy.org/download.html) and it boots fine with the default config.txt, but there is a 48-pixel wide black border on the screen. term% echo `{ dd -if /dev/screen -bs 64 -count 1} 0+1 records in 0+1 records

Re: [9fans] 9legacy Raspberry Pi HDMI video questions

2024-04-05 Thread slash 9fans
physically powered off after making changes to the config file. ctrl-t ctrl-t r is not sufficient. / > On 5. Apr 2024, at 16.33, slash 9fans wrote: > > Dear 9fans, > > I am booting my Raspberry Pi 4B off the 9legacy SD card image > (http://www.9legacy.org/download.html) and

Re: [9fans] ext2srv understands only 7bit ASCII file names?

2011-10-13 Thread slash . 9fans
> latin-1 bytes 00-FF turn into unicode runes 00-FF. Then why doesn't it Just Work? Now I am confused (again).