[9fans] Reboot during kernel initiation (Live CD)

[9fans] Reboot during kernel initiation (Live CD)

[erichaase]

Hello all,

	I'm trying to get Plan 9 running on an old system I have laying
around and I'm having a problem. Whenever I boot using the Live CD
(using both options: live cd and install) my system reboots during the
kernel initiation phase. Here is a log of the text that scrolls by
during bootup:

found 9pccd.gz
.gz............................
[more text scrolls by here]
#10: elnk3: 10Mbps ...
256M memory: ...

	My system always reboots after the "256M memory" line is printed and
I figure its because of a hardware incompatibility issue but I can't
seem to figure out which piece of hardware is causing the problem.
Here is the lspci (Linux) output on this system:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/
DX Host bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX
AGP bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA
(rev 02)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE
(rev 01)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB
(rev 01)
0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev
02)
0000:00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c900B-TPC
Etherlink XL [Cyclone] (rev 04)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA
TNT2/TNT2 Pro] (rev 11)

	I've used the same CD to successfully boot a different system so I
know the problem isn't the CD. I'm running out of ideas and would
appreciate any type of feedback. Thanks in advance!

Re: [9fans] Reboot during kernel initiation (Live CD)

[Lucio De Re]

On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 08:39 +0000, erichaase@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> 	I'm trying to get Plan 9 running on an old system I have laying
> around and I'm having a problem. Whenever I boot using the Live CD
> (using both options: live cd and install) my system reboots during the
> kernel initiation phase. Here is a log of the text that scrolls by
> during bootup:
>
> found 9pccd.gz
> .gz............................
> [more text scrolls by here]
> #10: elnk3: 10Mbps ...
> 256M memory: ...
>
I'd figure ACPI (lack of), but I can't check.  I do have a host that has
no ACPI capabilities and I successfully booted NetBSD through the right
incantations.  I didn't get Linux to boot, but I did not try very hard.

Plan 9 also failed and I no longer recall what shape the failure took.

++L