[9fans] Almost immediate ISO Boot Failure

2010-04-30 Thread Michael Arnold

Booting from the CR-ROM ISO download on 28 April and get the following:

PSB1...
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
ELCR:0E28
Clockinit...alarminit...meminit...spollo...pcimatch...kbdinit...plan9.ini
probe...probing floppy...probing floppy...probing BIOS...probing
BIOS...islba:drive 0X80 extensions version 48.0 cx 0x5
extgetsize:drive 0x80 info flags 0x1
bios0:drive 0x80 160,000,000,000 bytes, type 3
islba:drive 0x81 extensions version 48.0 cx 0x5
extgetsize:drive 0x80 info flags 0x1
bios 1: drive 0x81: 500,107,862,016 bytes, type 3

And all activity seems to stop with cursor blinking.  Keyboard unresponsive
to CTL-R.

System is a dell precision 390; In BIOS, CR-ROM drive is Primary IDE Master.

As both keyboard and mouse are usb devices thought I¹d modify plan.ini, but
not sure which of the iso¹s plan9.ini¹s to modify:
/sys/lib/dist/pc/plan9.ini?

Some additional info on the hardware:
- CD Rom - Philips DVD+-RW DVD8801 ATA Device
- IDE Controller is an Intel 82801G (ICH7 family) Ultra ATA Storage
Controllers ­ 27D7F, PCI Bus 0,IRQ: 0x000E (14)
- IDE Controller is also an Intel 82801GR/GH SATA ACHI Controller, PCI Bus
0, IRQ: 0x0012 (20)
- USB controller is Intel 82801G (ICH7 Family)
- Screen card is a Nvidia Quadro NVS 285, PCI Bus location 1, IRQ: 16
(another reason to modify plan9.ini)
-  2 SATA HDD, SATA0=160gig, SATA3=500,00gig (as above)
- uses GRUB


Re: [9fans] Almost immediate ISO Boot Failure

2010-05-01 Thread Michael Arnold
Thanks erik - that works perfectly!


On 30/04/10 10:07 PM, "erik quanstrom"  wrote:

>> Some additional info on the hardware:
>> - CD Rom - Philips DVD+-RW DVD8801 ATA Device
>> - IDE Controller is an Intel 82801G (ICH7 family) Ultra ATA Storage
>> Controllers ­ 27D7F, PCI Bus 0,IRQ: 0x000E (14)
> 
> try 9atom.  it works around quirks in ich7, especially with
> sata + pata combos.
> 
>  ftp://ftp.quanstro.net/other/9atom.iso.bz2
> 
> - erik
>