9fans archive / 1999 / 01 / 2 / prev next From: Digby Tarvin digbyt@acm.org Subject: [9fans] Plan9 on sparc? Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 11:50:25 +0000 (GMT/BST) > >Hi, > >is there anybody out there who is running plan9 on a sparc ? >I tried to install it, but couldn't find out which file I have to link >on the bootp server as xxxxxxxx.SUN4C (where the x = hex IP address). >I wonder if that should be a special boot strap loader as with other >OS'es (I'm also running NetBSD and OpenBSD on that machine, both booting >over the net) or if the bootstrap file has to be one of the 9ss* in /sparc . >I'm not running currently any other plan9 system so I installed a 9fs server >on a BSD box to have a fileserver on the net. But unfortunately I couldn't >make it at least access that fileserver. All the 9ss* kernels stop any >activities after loading them over the net. >Thanx for any hints. > I boot Plan9 on my SPARCstation 2 using tftp, and a u9fs file server. Bother services run on an Intel BSD/OS 3.1 system. I use 9ss as the bootfile (no special loader needed for network boot). Do you at least get to the point where Plan9 prompts for the file server to use? If so, make sure you enter numeric IP addresses, and log in as user none. If it doesn't work, check your file server logs to see if it registered any attempted connections. This is what my tftpboot directory looks like: total 4288 lrwxr-xr-x 1 digbyt wheel 20 Dec 2 03:45 9pc -> /user2/plan9/386/9pc -rwxr-xr-x 4 digbyt wheel 502750 Apr 21 1998 9ss -rwxr-xr-x 4 digbyt wheel 502750 Apr 21 1998 CB1B2901 -rwxr-xr-x 4 digbyt wheel 502750 Apr 21 1998 CB1B2901.SUN4C -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Apr 28 1997 CB1B2906 -rwxr-xr-x 4 digbyt wheel 502750 Apr 21 1998 CB1B2907 -rw-r--r-- 1 digbyt wheel 395 Dec 12 1997 CB1C822B -rw-r--r-- 2 root wheel 72998 Jul 26 21:42 OS9Boot147 -rw-r--r-- 2 root wheel 126644 Jul 27 00:14 OS9Boot167 -rw-r--r-- 2 root wheel 72998 Jul 26 21:42 OS9BootRamix147 -rw-r--r-- 2 root wheel 126644 Jul 27 00:14 OS9BootRamix167 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 70866 Jul 26 02:58 OS9BootSCSI147 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 124512 Jul 26 00:33 OS9BootSCSI167 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1732028 Apr 28 1997 SunOS_4.1.3 lrwxr-xr-x 1 digbyt wheel 38 Dec 2 03:45 Xncdhmx -> /usr/home/ncd/ncd/Xncd.4.0.118/Xncdhmx drwxrwxrwx 3 digbyt wheel 512 Jan 20 1997 lib lrwxr-xr-x 1 digbyt wheel 38 Dec 2 03:45 modshmx -> /usr/home/ncd/ncd/Xncd.4.0.118/modshmx lrwxr-xr-x 1 digbyt wheel 17 Dec 2 03:45 zImage.mbx -> /user2/mbx/zImage -- Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt@acm.org http://www.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk