Re: [9fans] 9pccpu: can't open /dev/sdXX/nvram

2013-05-17 Thread arisawa
Bell Labs 9fans@9fans.net Betreff: Re: [9fans] 9pccpu: can't open /dev/sdXX/nvram Hello Erik, the problem is not in transmission speed of network. mine is based on 9front. messages that come from booting process is as follows: (1) the content in plan9.ini. (2) then single letter

Re: [9fans] 9pccpu: can't open /dev/sdXX/nvram

2013-05-16 Thread kernel panic
: arisawa aris...@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp An: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs 9fans@9fans.net Betreff: Re: [9fans] 9pccpu: can't open /dev/sdXX/nvram Hello Erik, the problem is not in transmission speed of network. mine is based on 9front. messages that come from booting process is as follows: (1

Re: [9fans] 9pccpu: can't open /dev/sdXX/nvram

2013-05-15 Thread arisawa
Hello, I retried cpu kernel with only usb flash drive. this time I have finally succeeded in automatic start service. the kernel is based on 9front. MB is GA-G31M-S2L. the MB is old model and very slow in polling usb even if I set *acpi=1 in plan9.ini. my nvram setting is

Re: [9fans] 9pccpu: can't open /dev/sdXX/nvram

2013-05-15 Thread arisawa
PXE + (nvram on usb flash) is much faster than usb flash only boot. On 2013/05/15, at 18:56, arisawa aris...@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote: I retried cpu kernel with only usb flash drive. this time I have finally succeeded in automatic start service. the kernel is based on 9front. MB is

Re: [9fans] 9pccpu: can't open /dev/sdXX/nvram

2013-05-15 Thread arisawa
Hello Erik, the problem is not in transmission speed of network. mine is based on 9front. messages that come from booting process is as follows: (1) the content in plan9.ini. (2) then single letter hexadecimal messages 0 1 ... a b .. f 0 1 ... (3) and then boot. the message comes from bootfat.

Re: [9fans] 9pccpu: can't open /dev/sdXX/nvram

2013-05-15 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed May 15 20:17:40 EDT 2013, aris...@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote: Hello Erik, the problem is not in transmission speed of network. mine is based on 9front. messages that come from booting process is as follows: (1) the content in plan9.ini. (2) then single letter hexadecimal messages 0 1

Re: [9fans] 9pccpu: can't open /dev/sdXX/nvram

2013-05-13 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
were you able to resolve this? i have the same problem with a diskless Supermicro 5015A-EHF-D525 server with a 1GB ScanDisk usb. -Skip On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 2:19 AM, arisawa aris...@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote: Hello, I have another example that behaves somewhat different from

Re: [9fans] 9pccpu: can't open /dev/sdXX/nvram

2013-05-13 Thread arisawa
Hello, not yet with usb. my current solution is sdcard with sata adapter only for NVRAM. I will be happy if someone have a solution that uses usb flash drive only. Kenji Arisawa On 2013/05/14, at 1:37, Skip Tavakkolian skip.tavakkol...@gmail.com wrote: were you able to resolve this? i have

Re: [9fans] 9pccpu: can't open /dev/sdXX/nvram

2013-05-13 Thread Matthew Veety
I have my nvram as a file on my fat partition. That seems to work. On May 13, 2013, at 17:32, arisawa aris...@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote: Hello, not yet with usb. my current solution is sdcard with sata adapter only for NVRAM. I will be happy if someone have a solution that uses usb flash

Re: [9fans] 9pccpu: can't open /dev/sdXX/nvram

2013-05-13 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon May 13 17:33:12 EDT 2013, aris...@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote: Hello, not yet with usb. my current solution is sdcard with sata adapter only for NVRAM. I will be happy if someone have a solution that uses usb flash drive only. it looks to me that the problem is the fact that intrenable()

Re: [9fans] 9pccpu: can't open /dev/sdXX/nvram

2012-08-16 Thread arisawa
Hello cinap, There are no 9pc and 9pccpu in 9front package. Is there any reason? It seems 9bootpxe of 9front does better jobs than 9pxeload. However 9bootpxe does not support menu. Is there any reason? On 2012/07/31, at 5:45, cinap_len...@gmx.de wrote: or use 9front with *acpi=1 --

Re: [9fans] 9pccpu: can't open /dev/sdXX/nvram

2012-08-16 Thread cinap_lenrek
the 9front kernels use a new rc based bootstrap system. the kernel itself uses a compressed ram filesystem image (paqfs) that will be mounted by /boot/boot containing the required programs like rc, srv, ifconfig and file fileservers like 9660srv and cwfs to mount the real root filesystem. there

Re: [9fans] 9pccpu: can't open /dev/sdXX/nvram

2012-07-30 Thread arisawa
Hello, I have another example that behaves somewhat different from GA-H61M-USB3-B3. The MB is GA-73UM-S2H. The chipset is nVIDIA GeForce 7150/nForce 630i. Kernel message are: Plan 9 cpu0: 2667MHz GenuineIntel Core 2/Xeon (cpuid: AX 0x06FB DX 0xBFEBFBFF) ELCR: 0C20 LAPIC: 0xfee0 0xe000

Re: [9fans] 9pccpu: can't open /dev/sdXX/nvram

2012-07-30 Thread erik quanstrom
pcirouting: ignoring south bridge PCI.0.0.0 10DE/07C0 #l0: igbepcie: 1Gbps port 0xE408 irq 10: 6805ca00fbd2 mpintrenable: out of choices eisa -1 isa 5 tbdf 0xc002000 irq 11 intrenable: couldn't enable irq 11, tbdf 0xC002000 for usbohci mpintrenable: out of choices eisa -1 isa 5 tbdf

Re: [9fans] 9pccpu: can't open /dev/sdXX/nvram

2012-07-30 Thread cinap_lenrek
or use 9front with *acpi=1 -- cinap

Re: [9fans] 9pccpu: can't open /dev/sdXX/nvram

2012-07-29 Thread arisawa
Hello, On 2012/07/28, at 23:33, David du Colombier wrote: I would tend to think that USB is not properly supported on your machine. You are right. It seems the machine dislikes Plan9. The MB is GA-H61M-USB3-B3 Thanks a lot. Kenji Arisawa

Re: [9fans] 9pccpu: can't open /dev/sdXX/nvram

2012-07-29 Thread Richard Miller
The MB is GA-H61M-USB3-B3 Are you sure you are plugging the usbdisk into a USB2.0 socket, not a USB3.0 one?

Re: [9fans] 9pccpu: can't open /dev/sdXX/nvram

2012-07-29 Thread arisawa
Hello, On 2012/07/29, at 18:43, Richard Miller wrote: The MB is GA-H61M-USB3-B3 Are you sure you are plugging the usbdisk into a USB2.0 socket, not a USB3.0 one? The usb disk is plugged into USB 2.0/1.1 socket. Thanks Richard. Kenji Arisawa

Re: [9fans] 9pccpu: can't open /dev/sdXX/nvram

2012-07-29 Thread Richard Miller
I'm sorry that didn't help. My intel DH61DL motherboard has the same chipset as yours. If I try a usb flash disk in a USB3 port, I can boot Plan 9 from it, but once booted the drive isn't visible. You might try usb/probe to see if your kernel is able to see the drive at all.

Re: [9fans] 9pccpu: can't open /dev/sdXX/nvram

2012-07-29 Thread arisawa
Hello, You might try usb/probe to see if your kernel is able to see the drive at all. usb/probe does not show messages such as storage csp Thanks, Richard. Other possibilities: Hardware trouble? No, Xubuntu can read usb disks. Kenji Arisawa

Re: [9fans] 9pccpu: can't open /dev/sdXX/nvram

2012-07-28 Thread David du Colombier
Has anyone succeeded in booting cpu server from usbdisk? There is no problem in booting the CPU server, since you can always specify the required values by hand during the boot. You problem is that you can't read/write theses values from/to the disk. I suppose you're using the USB image I am

Re: [9fans] 9pccpu: can't open /dev/sdXX/nvram

2012-07-28 Thread arisawa
You can simply mount the first FAT partition from the USB disk, edit the plan9.ini and add the readparts= parameter in the [common] section, just before the nvram= parameter, like this: readparts= nvram=/dev/sdXX/nvram That is exactly what I did. The problem is in the message no usb

Re: [9fans] 9pccpu: can't open /dev/sdXX/nvram

2012-07-28 Thread David du Colombier
If the problem is only to me, I am disliked by 9pccpu kernel. I don't see anything particularly wrong in your setup. Your kernel is recent enough and should work. Personally, I haven't encountered this problem. I would tend to think that USB is not properly supported on your machine. Does

[9fans] 9pccpu: can't open /dev/sdXX/nvram

2012-07-27 Thread arisawa
Hello, I am in trouble in booting 9pccpu from usbdisk. Boot loader detects 9fat in plan9 partition in usbdisk, and reads plan9.ini, and successfully executes 9pccpu. However, 9pccpu says no usb disk in reading /dev/sdXX/nvram Kernel messages: usbinit...usbd...usb/hub... no usb disk... ...