I can mount my fossil when booted from the cdrom. The output of fossil/conf /dev/sdE0/fossil is as follows:
fsys main config /dev/sdE0/fossil fsys main open -AWVP fsys other config /dev/sdE0/other fsys other open -AWVP srv -p fscons srv fossil Running fossil/fossil -f /dev/sdE0/fossil while booted form the CD returns no errors, and subsequent mounts of of both main and other work as expected. I'm beginning to suspect that the kernels on the CD in /386 don't match their descriptions in /sys/src/9/pc. Maybe it's simply timing as things die, but I can't get them to show me there ever being a fossil process. I have three SATA hard disks attached. Plan 9 identifies them as sdE[013]; the BIOS identifies them as Channel 2 Master, Channel 3 Master, and Channel 3 Slave (which would lead me to expect sdE[023] or sdE0+sdF[01]). I also have an IDE cdrom on sdC0 (Channel 0 Master in the BIOS). Anthony
