Re: [9fans] An 8 cores, AMD Ryzen, 16 GB DDR5 for 399 euros

2025-02-14 Thread tlaronde
Thanks for the tip. I will look into it in the next days---I mean, I will try to add an UEFI shell just to explore, and will resort to PXE booting before, probably, wiping out Windows to replace it by Plan9. If the network works, that's sufficient for what I want to do with it. On Thu, Feb 13, 20

Re: [9fans] An 8 cores, AMD Ryzen, 16 GB DDR5 for 399 euros

2025-02-13 Thread adventures in9
I bought a new AMD Ryzen recently that had a similar issue booting from USB. Turns out, the USB isn't supported by the 9front kernel, so it dies trying to boot from USB. PXE booting works fine. I did a video mentioning it, but haven't had time or motivation to dig into it. https://youtu.be/6Grhw

Re: [9fans] An 8 cores, AMD Ryzen, 16 GB DDR5 for 399 euros

2025-02-13 Thread tlaronde
On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 02:27:44PM -0500, Ori Bernstein wrote: > Again, do you have a photo of the screen? No, no photo. But no need: just what I transcribed (with the logo of AMI in background, but I doubt it is of some interest). > > What happens when you type 'boot'? Message: "no bootfile" >

Re: [9fans] An 8 cores, AMD Ryzen, 16 GB DDR5 for 399 euros

2025-02-13 Thread Ori Bernstein
Again, do you have a photo of the screen? What happens when you type 'boot'? It sounds like the EFI code is starting fine, but failing to load the kernel, but I don't have enough information. On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:39:12 +0100, wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 12:20:21PM -0500, o...@eigenstate

Re: [9fans] An 8 cores, AMD Ryzen, 16 GB DDR5 for 399 euros

2025-02-13 Thread tlaronde
On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 12:20:21PM -0500, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: > With no other errors? Can you take a photo of hte screen? > No, only this: *acpi=0x93207014 *bootscreen=1600x900x32 x8r8g8b8 0x7fe000 and that's all. But the UEFI interface seems incomplete (there is no shell). So I will

Re: [9fans] An 8 cores, AMD Ryzen, 16 GB DDR5 for 399 euros

2025-02-13 Thread ori
With no other errors? Can you take a photo of hte screen? Quoth tlaro...@kergis.com: > In order to be able to test multicores, I bought a PC with an AMD > Ryzen, normally 8 cores (Windows tells it has 16 processors, but I > guess these are threads and not cores), 16GB of memory, a 512 GB SSD > di

[9fans] An 8 cores, AMD Ryzen, 16 GB DDR5 for 399 euros

2025-02-13 Thread tlaronde
In order to be able to test multicores, I bought a PC with an AMD Ryzen, normally 8 cores (Windows tells it has 16 processors, but I guess these are threads and not cores), 16GB of memory, a 512 GB SSD disk, with both wifi and an RJ45 (Realtek Gaming 2.5GbE Family controler, but should be compatib