[9fans] Shiva/Guru Plug Support

2012-05-13 Thread Burton Samograd
Hello, I found the annoucement for Shiva plug support (http://marc.info/?l=9fansm=125849399830547w=2) and I was wondering what progress has been made with the port. I looked in /sys/src/9/kw and it looks like there has been more recent development, but could someone give me a quick summary of

Re: [9fans] Shiva/Guru Plug Support

2012-05-13 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
i have several (guru and sheeva) running plan9. they're configured as cpu's and boot from a file server (x86 laptop auth+cpu+fs). i've had the most problems with power supplies on both models; going by my sample size, they have a 25% combined failure rate. -Skip On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 8:42 AM,

Re: [9fans] Shiva/Guru Plug Support

2012-05-13 Thread Matthew Veety
On May 13, 2012, at 3:26 PM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: i have several (guru and sheeva) running plan9. they're configured as cpu's and boot from a file server (x86 laptop auth+cpu+fs). i've had the most problems with power supplies on both models; going by my sample size, they have a 25%

[9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-13 Thread Burton Samograd
Hello I just installed 9front onto the second partition of my main SSD drive and when I boot using grub with 'chainloader +1' I get a PBS check which looks to pass and then the message 'no fat'. I am thinking that my installation might be out of sector range on the drive; I installed on the

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-13 Thread cinap_lenrek
the pbs managed to load 9bootfat but 9bootfat wasnt able to find the fat partition it came from. we pass 32bit lba's to the bios read sector routines, so theres nothing inside 9boot itself that would prevent this from working i think. 9bootfat does its search by walking all partition table

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-13 Thread Burton Samograd
9bootfat does its search by walking all partition table entries (primary and secondary) on the bootdrive that are marked as active. Reading the grub docs, it sounds like an active partition is marked bootable and only one partition can be marked that way. Currently my linux partition is

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-13 Thread Burton Samograd
Toggling the bootable flag on the plan9 partition did allow it to start booting. It then looked to be iterating over the drives, where on my harddisks I got: sdE0 disk name/id bad disk bad disk bad disk bad disk bad disk sdE5 disk name/id bad disk bad disk bad disk bad disk bad disk This

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-13 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sun May 13 21:20:40 EDT 2012, burton.samog...@gmail.com wrote: Toggling the bootable flag on the plan9 partition did allow it to start booting. It then looked to be iterating over the drives, where on my harddisks I got: sdE0 disk name/id bad disk bad disk bad disk bad disk bad disk

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-13 Thread Burton Samograd
Attached is the output of lspci. I'll see if I can get it to fully boot to get the output of the other command. -- Burton On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 8:56 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: On Sun May 13 21:20:40 EDT 2012, burton.samog...@gmail.com wrote: Toggling the bootable flag

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-13 Thread erik quanstrom
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801IR/IO/IH (ICH9R/DO/DH) 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02) 03:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6101/6102 single-port PATA133 interface (rev b1) i assume that you're attached to 00:1f:2, the sata controller due to the

Re: [9fans] 5i floating point?

2012-05-13 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Wed, 9 May 2012 12:36:06 -0400 erik quanstrom quans...@labs.coraid.com wrote: On Wed May 9 10:38:21 EDT 2012, cinap_len...@gmx.de wrote: aiju wrote an arm emulator for 9front some time ago and i remember he implemented floating point on it. why was it done this way rather than

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-13 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sun, 13 May 2012 18:22:02 -0600 Burton Samograd burton.samog...@gmail.com wrote: 9bootfat does its search by walking all partition table entries (primary and secondary) on the bootdrive that are marked as active. Reading the grub docs, it sounds like an active partition is marked