> Hello, > > I'm one of the other people trying to get plan 9 on the same VPS host > provider. I've gotten past that hang. Some haphazard print statements > narrowed the hang down to the e820 init function in memory.c. So to > work around, setting either *noe820scan=1 or *norealmode=1 in plan9.ini > will allow you to boot in that VPS without the aforementioned hang. > What the actual problem is, I don't know. I'm fast approaching the end > of my abilities, so you'll have to pick it up from there. > I'll know tomorrow how my install goes. > I do know where exactly it does hang, but it's my bedtime. I'll have to > drawterm into my cpu server and check my notes again to post where > exactly the boot hung.
have you tried the 9load from 9atom? i moved the e820 scan to before 9load switches from real mode, which should be safer. ftp://ftp.quanstro.net/other/^(9pxeload 9load) - erik
