Extract a Plan9 root file system (ISOs from official plan9, 9atom or
9front all should work) into your directory of choice "/path/to/plan9"
(9vx defaults to the directory /usr/local/plan9vx)


On 3/2/16, Vasudev Kamath <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was reading the Arch wiki on 9vx ¹ which said 9vx should/might boot 9atom
> and 9front ISO also. So I thought of trying this out and executed the
> following command.
>
>  9vx -r ../images/9front-4796.018cb441d1b5.iso -u glenda "CWD=#Z`pwd`"
> "nvram=#Z`pwd`/9front.nvr"
>
> But I got the following error and 9vx is exited.
>
>> 9vx panic: boot process died: boot: mount /: file does not exist
>
>> aborting, to dump core.
>> We're done talking
>
> So I'm just wondering if its possible to boot 9front ISO from 9vx or is
> it just Labs ISO.
>
> ¹ https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/9vx
>
> Cheers,
>
>

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