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 that matter). First I made a "regular" one, which of course didn't change a thing for this ibm machine. Then I made one with *nobiosload=1 in the [common] section of its plan9.ini and with the old 9load you put in your contrib, but it still panics in the same way I described in the previous post. I'm pasting it again, as a reminder:
ELCR: 0C80 apm ax=f000 cx=f000 dx=40 di=ffff 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 00000000 BX 80815d78 CX 00000000 DX 800fdfc0 SI 00001022 DI 00000024 BP 0000746b CS 0010 DS 0008 ES 0008 FS 0008 GS 0008 CR0 80000011 CR2 0000000 CR3 0000c000 panic: exception/interrupt 6 Any other suggestion please? In the meanwhile I'm gonna try fgb's 9load and see what can be done with that. Cheers, Mathieu. On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 2:46 PM, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 for the old 9load. > > assuming you already have a fileserver, you may just want a boot floppy. > lacking a physical floppy, you can build an eltorito from the floppy image. > > this isn't something i've done in a very long time as i find it much easier > to > find a workable nic and pxe boot. > > - erik > > > -- GPG key on subkeys.pgp.net: KeyID: | Fingerprint: 683DE5F3 | 4324 5818 39AA 9545 95C6 09AF B0A4 DFEA 683D E5F3
