[9fans] iso experiment

2009-08-03 Thread erik quanstrom
i've suggested using my contrib/sd to a few people who are having trouble with sd devices. unfortunately, it's hard to apply patches without a working system. so as an experiment i built a cd that differs from the cd on sources only in the kernel and 9load and plan9.ini used. everything else is

Re: [9fans] iso experiment

2009-08-03 Thread Benjamin Huntsman
Oops... looks like I forgot to finish my thought: I was one of those people, and I must say, the sd drivers work great and seem to offer a degree of flexibility that the stock driver does not. Why not just incorporate them into the official distribution? -Ben winmail.dat

Re: [9fans] iso experiment

2009-08-03 Thread Benjamin Huntsman
i've suggested using my contrib/sd to a few people who are having trouble with sd devices I was one of those people, and I must say, the sd drivers work great and seem to offer a degree of flexibility that the Why not just incorporate them into the official distribution? -Ben winmail.dat

Re: [9fans] iso experiment

2009-08-03 Thread David Leimbach
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Benjamin Huntsman bhunts...@mail2.cu-portland.edu wrote: Oops... looks like I forgot to finish my thought: I was one of those people, and I must say, the sd drivers work great and seem to offer a degree of flexibility that the stock driver does not. Why not

Re: [9fans] iso experiment

2009-08-03 Thread Steve Simon
Ok, Your iso image boots OK, however the kernel still doesn't see PATA. The iso boots off PATA, 9load finds and reads plan9.ini, it fails to find the kernel (because it is looking on sdD0), if I type the kernel path in by hand then it loads the kernel as you would expect. I tried your bootdev

Re: [9fans] iso experiment

2009-08-03 Thread erik quanstrom
mine does. so we have to figure out what we're doing wrong with your hardware, or decide that there's something wrong [with your hardware]. there, fixed that for me. - erik

Re: [9fans] iso experiment

2009-08-03 Thread Steve Simon
Ok, I'al try my keyboard mod and I borrowed a DVDROM drive from work, just to see if that works any better. -Steve

Re: [9fans] iso experiment

2009-08-03 Thread erik quanstrom
Your iso image boots OK, however the kernel still doesn't see PATA. mine does. so we have to figure out what we're doing wrong with your hardware, or decide that there's something wrong. The iso boots off PATA, 9load finds and reads plan9.ini, it fails to find the kernel (because it is

Re: [9fans] iso experiment

2009-08-03 Thread Steve Simon
Appologies for the noise everyone.

Re: [9fans] iso experiment

2009-08-03 Thread erik quanstrom
I was one of those people, and I must say, the sd drivers work great and seem to offer a degree of flexibility that the stock driver does not. Why not just incorporate them into the official distribution? i'm glad it works for you. thanks for the feedback. i appreciate all feedback good or