Re: [9fans] Venti Install

[Russ Cox]

The lines that were quoted:

      init: starting /bin/rc
      echo: write error: bad process or channel control request
      echo: write error: bad process or channel control request

are almost always caused by trying to enable dma
when it's not available.

In the case of VMware, I believe DMA is never available,
since they handle the REP INSL instruction as efficiently
as they could simulate DMA anyway.  I know this is the
case for the simulated IDE.  I am not as sure about
simulated SCSI.

Russ