wearing dunce cap ... unfortunately the 9load format and kernel format
are different and i confused them. so modulo a missing 'S' (typo?), your
initial
guess was correct:
local!#S/sdE0/fossil
you can use the silkscreen on the motherboard to eliminate the guessing about
which port your hard drive is plugged into.
there are many other problems you could have. can you boot from the live
cd and poke around to see what's available on your hard drive? once you
get booted, you can open a new window, bind devsd (don't know if
the livecd does this)
bind -a '#S' /dev
recognize the partitions
cd /dev/sdE[whatever]
disk/fdisk -p data>ctl
test -f plan9 && disk/prep -p plan9>ctl
you should then be able to use fossil/conf and other programs to inspect
your installation. 9fat: will mount 9fat on /n/9fat.
these manual pages
boot(8)
dossrv(4)
fossil(4)
prep(8)
plan9.ini(8)
might be useful (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/man/)
- erik
> > > kernel prints a message detailing the sata port. 9load says its #S/
> > > sdE0, but when I try to tell the kernel the root fs is local!#/sdE0!
> > > fossil the kernel panics because it can't connect to the given server.
> >
> > > Any ideas?
> >
> > great.
> >
> > souldn't that be "local!sdE0!fossil"?
> >
> > - erik
>
> Well I tried local!sdE0!fossil and local!sdE0!fs to no avail. I also
> tried sdE1 sdE2 and sdE3, since it says I have four sata ports I am
> assuming sdE3 would be the highest drive. I'll keep trying other
> things and let you know
>
> I really appreciate all the help. I hope I can repay the list with
> some good information.
