I would love to try the patch. And I'm still baffled as to why the
installer works but the standard kernels don't.

Peace

uriel

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:54 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
>> Thanks Eric. Now I need to try to find the errant code, but I can't connect a
>> debugger at this point. What else can I do to diagnose the problem?
>
> i think the suggestion to take the cdrom out of your vm profile is the right
> one. i think access of the cdrom drive is the problem. once you get things going, i do have
> a patch that might work for you if you still need the cdrom. i haven't tried
> it since i don't run vmware.
>
> - erik
>
>

> I would love to try the patch. And I'm still baffled as to why the
> installer works but the standard kernels don't.
>
> Peace
>
> uriel

it is the sdata patch i posted a few weeks ago.

Sep 8 13:00:49 EDT 2008 /n/dump/2008/0922/sys/src/9/pc/sdata.c 54744 [quanstro]
/n/dump/2008/0922/sys/src/9/pc/sdata.c:1421 c /n/dump/2008/0908/sys/src/9/pc/sdata.c:1421
< if(ataready(cmdport, ctlport, drive->dev, Bsy|Drq, Drdy, 101*1000) < 0)
---
> if(ataready(cmdport, ctlport, drive->dev, Bsy|Drq, 0, 101*1000) < 0)

if this doesn't fix the problem, i'll see if i can't do a vmware install and
see what the problem is.

- erik