* [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305 @ 2009-05-19 19:51 nocturnal 2009-05-19 20:21 ` Sergey Zhilkin 0 siblings, 1 reply; 20+ messages in thread From: nocturnal @ 2009-05-19 19:51 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 655 bytes --] When booting the installcd on my ibm xserve 305 it says; Bios call failed: bios loading disabled no plan9.ini then it gives me a boot from: prompt but it doesn't matter which ide interface or device i try, it just brings me back to the prompt. FreeBSD is installed on this particular machine right now and it does in fact have a floppy so i'm gonna try the floppy too but it would be nice if someone could look into the source and see why it's giving this BIOS error. Or just point me to the correct source file if it is available online somewhere? -- Med vänliga hälsningar Stefan Midjich aka nocturnal [SWEHACK] http://swehack.se [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 858 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 20+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305 2009-05-19 19:51 [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305 nocturnal @ 2009-05-19 20:21 ` Sergey Zhilkin 2009-05-19 20:32 ` erik quanstrom 2009-05-19 21:19 ` Eric Van Hensbergen 0 siblings, 2 replies; 20+ messages in thread From: Sergey Zhilkin @ 2009-05-19 20:21 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1052 bytes --] Hi ! It seems that Plan9 boot loader doesn't support modern hardware from IBM :( May be someone from IBM can help :) P.S.: I have some IBM HS21 servers and I wish to use Plan9 on them. 2009/5/19 nocturnal <swehack@gmail.com> > When booting the installcd on my ibm xserve 305 it says; > Bios call failed: bios loading disabled > no plan9.ini > then it gives me a boot from: prompt but it doesn't matter which ide > interface or device i try, it just brings me back to the prompt. > FreeBSD is installed on this particular machine right now and it does in > fact have a floppy so i'm gonna try the floppy too but it would be nice if > someone could look into the source and see why it's giving this BIOS error. > Or just point me to the correct source file if it is available online > somewhere? > > -- > > > Med vänliga hälsningar > > Stefan Midjich aka nocturnal > [SWEHACK] http://swehack.se > -- С наилучшими пожеланиями Жилкин Сергей With best regards Zhilkin Sergey [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1585 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 20+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305 2009-05-19 20:21 ` Sergey Zhilkin @ 2009-05-19 20:32 ` erik quanstrom 2009-05-22 11:27 ` Sergey Zhilkin 2009-05-26 9:19 ` Balwinder S Dheeman 2009-05-19 21:19 ` Eric Van Hensbergen 1 sibling, 2 replies; 20+ messages in thread From: erik quanstrom @ 2009-05-19 20:32 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans > Hi ! > > It seems that Plan9 boot loader doesn't support modern hardware from IBM :( > > May be someone from IBM can help :) > > P.S.: I have some IBM HS21 servers and I wish to use Plan9 on them. > > 2009/5/19 nocturnal <swehack@gmail.com> pci (or linux lspci -n) output would be helpful. - erik ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 20+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305 2009-05-19 20:32 ` erik quanstrom @ 2009-05-22 11:27 ` Sergey Zhilkin 2009-05-22 12:02 ` erik quanstrom 2009-05-26 9:19 ` Balwinder S Dheeman 1 sibling, 1 reply; 20+ messages in thread From: Sergey Zhilkin @ 2009-05-22 11:27 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1769 bytes --] 2009/5/20 erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> > > Hi ! > > > > It seems that Plan9 boot loader doesn't support modern hardware from IBM > :( > > > > May be someone from IBM can help :) > > > > P.S.: I have some IBM HS21 servers and I wish to use Plan9 on them. > > > > 2009/5/19 nocturnal <swehack@gmail.com> > > pci (or linux lspci -n) output would be helpful. > > - erik > > lspci -n from IBM HS21 00:00.0 0600: 8086:25d8 (rev b1) 00:02.0 0604: 8086:25f7 (rev b1) 00:03.0 0604: 8086:25e3 (rev b1) 00:04.0 0604: 8086:25e4 (rev b1) 00:05.0 0604: 8086:25e5 (rev b1) 00:06.0 0604: 8086:25e6 (rev b1) 00:07.0 0604: 8086:25e7 (rev b1) 00:08.0 0880: 8086:1a38 (rev b1) 00:10.0 0600: 8086:25f0 (rev b1) 00:10.1 0600: 8086:25f0 (rev b1) 00:10.2 0600: 8086:25f0 (rev b1) 00:11.0 0600: 8086:25f1 (rev b1) 00:13.0 0600: 8086:25f3 (rev b1) 00:15.0 0600: 8086:25f5 (rev b1) 00:16.0 0600: 8086:25f6 (rev b1) 00:1c.0 0604: 8086:2690 (rev 09) 00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:2688 (rev 09) 00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:2689 (rev 09) 00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:268a (rev 09) 00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:268c (rev 09) 00:1e.0 0604: 8086:244e (rev d9) 00:1f.0 0601: 8086:2670 (rev 09) 00:1f.2 0101: 8086:2680 (rev 09) 01:01.0 0300: 1002:515e (rev 02) 02:00.0 0100: 1000:0056 (rev 02) 03:00.0 0604: 1166:0103 (rev c3) 04:00.0 0200: 14e4:16ac (rev 12) 05:00.0 0604: 1166:0103 (rev c3) 06:00.0 0200: 14e4:16ac (rev 12) 07:00.0 0604: 8086:3500 (rev 01) 07:00.3 0604: 8086:350c (rev 01) 09:00.0 0604: 8086:3510 (rev 01) 09:01.0 0604: 8086:3514 (rev 01) 0c:00.0 0604: 10b5:8114 (rev aa) 0e:00.0 0604: 10b5:8114 (rev aa) 0f:05.0 0100: 9005:8017 (rev 10) -- С наилучшими пожеланиями Жилкин Сергей With best regards Zhilkin Sergey [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 2310 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 20+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305 2009-05-22 11:27 ` Sergey Zhilkin @ 2009-05-22 12:02 ` erik quanstrom 2009-05-22 13:20 ` Sergey Zhilkin 0 siblings, 1 reply; 20+ messages in thread From: erik quanstrom @ 2009-05-22 12:02 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans > > pci (or linux lspci -n) output would be helpful. > > > > - erik > > > > lspci -n from IBM HS21 [...] > 00:1f.2 0101: 8086:2680 (rev 09) i have a couple of cpu servers that use similar hardware. (at least the 63xxesb southbridge). the ide driver works with ide drives and the ahci driver works with sata drives. on that s.b. do you get any messages from either the ide driver or the ahci driver? i have not tried booting from the livecd in a very long time. i would think the sdD0 in plan9.ini would be a problem with recognized hardware. - erik ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 20+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305 2009-05-22 12:02 ` erik quanstrom @ 2009-05-22 13:20 ` Sergey Zhilkin 2009-05-22 13:51 ` Steve Simon 0 siblings, 1 reply; 20+ messages in thread From: Sergey Zhilkin @ 2009-05-22 13:20 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 938 bytes --] HS21 does't have IDE pinouts and drives. Only QLogic SAS controller and two SFF SAS Drives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_BladeCenter#HS21 2009/5/22 erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> > > > pci (or linux lspci -n) output would be helpful. > > > > > > - erik > > > > > > lspci -n from IBM HS21 > [...] > > > 00:1f.2 0101: 8086:2680 (rev 09) > > i have a couple of cpu servers that use similar hardware. > (at least the 63xxesb southbridge). > > the ide driver works with ide drives and the ahci driver > works with sata drives. on that s.b. do you get any > messages from either the ide driver or the ahci driver? > > i have not tried booting from the livecd in a very long > time. i would think the sdD0 in plan9.ini would be > a problem with recognized hardware. > > - erik > > -- С наилучшими пожеланиями Жилкин Сергей With best regards Zhilkin Sergey [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1452 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 20+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305 2009-05-22 13:20 ` Sergey Zhilkin @ 2009-05-22 13:51 ` Steve Simon 2009-05-22 15:01 ` blstuart 2009-05-23 6:13 ` Sergey Zhilkin 0 siblings, 2 replies; 20+ messages in thread From: Steve Simon @ 2009-05-22 13:51 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans > lspci -n from IBM HS21 00:00.0 0600: 8086:25d8 (rev b1) Intel Corporation 00:02.0 0604: 8086:25f7 (rev b1) Intel Corporation 00:03.0 0604: 8086:25e3 (rev b1) Intel Corporation 00:04.0 0604: 8086:25e4 (rev b1) Intel Corporation 00:05.0 0604: 8086:25e5 (rev b1) Intel Corporation 00:06.0 0604: 8086:25e6 (rev b1) Intel Corporation 00:07.0 0604: 8086:25e7 (rev b1) Intel Corporation 00:08.0 0880: 8086:1a38 (rev b1) Intel Corporation 5000P 5000 Series Chipset DMA Engine 00:10.0 0600: 8086:25f0 (rev b1) Intel Corporation 00:10.1 0600: 8086:25f0 (rev b1) Intel Corporation 00:10.2 0600: 8086:25f0 (rev b1) Intel Corporation 00:11.0 0600: 8086:25f1 (rev b1) Intel Corporation 00:13.0 0600: 8086:25f3 (rev b1) Intel Corporation 00:15.0 0600: 8086:25f5 (rev b1) Intel Corporation 00:16.0 0600: 8086:25f6 (rev b1) Intel Corporation 00:1c.0 0604: 8086:2690 (rev 09) Intel Corporation 00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:2688 (rev 09) Intel Corporation 00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:2689 (rev 09) Intel Corporation 00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:268a (rev 09) Intel Corporation 00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:268c (rev 09) Intel Corporation 00:1e.0 0604: 8086:244e (rev d9) Intel Corporation 82801DB Hub Interface to PCI Bridge 00:1f.0 0601: 8086:2670 (rev 09) Intel Corporation 00:1f.2 0101: 8086:2680 (rev 09) Intel Corporation 01:01.0 0300: 1002:515e (rev 02) ATI Technologies Inc. Radeon ES1000 Radeon ES1000 02:00.0 0100: 1000:0056 (rev 02) LSI Logic LSISAS1064ET PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS 03:00.0 0604: 1166:0103 (rev c3) Broadcom / ServerWorks BCM5715 Broadcom dual gigabit, pci bridge 04:00.0 0200: 14e4:16ac (rev 12) Broadcom Corporation 05:00.0 0604: 1166:0103 (rev c3) Broadcom / ServerWorks BCM5715 Broadcom dual gigabit, pci bridge 06:00.0 0200: 14e4:16ac (rev 12) Broadcom Corporation 07:00.0 0604: 8086:3500 (rev 01) Intel Corporation 07:00.3 0604: 8086:350c (rev 01) Intel Corporation 09:00.0 0604: 8086:3510 (rev 01) Intel Corporation 09:01.0 0604: 8086:3514 (rev 01) Intel Corporation 0c:00.0 0604: 10b5:8114 (rev aa) PLX Technology Inc. 0e:00.0 0604: 10b5:8114 (rev aa) PLX Technology Inc. 0f:05.0 0100: 9005:8017 (rev 10) Adaptec Inc ASC-29320ALP Ultra320 SCSI Controller Broadcom GigE - these are a problem, as I understand it Broadcom will not supply register level programming info for their chipsets except under NDA. and as these are blades you have no chance to plug in a supported PCI NIC. ☹ -Steve ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 20+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305 2009-05-22 13:51 ` Steve Simon @ 2009-05-22 15:01 ` blstuart 2009-05-22 15:22 ` Mathieu L. 2009-05-23 6:13 ` Sergey Zhilkin 1 sibling, 1 reply; 20+ messages in thread From: blstuart @ 2009-05-22 15:01 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans > Broadcom / ServerWorks BCM5715 Broadcom dual gigabit, pci bridge > 04:00.0 0200: 14e4:16ac (rev 12) > Broadcom Corporation > 05:00.0 0604: 1166:0103 (rev c3) > Broadcom / ServerWorks BCM5715 Broadcom dual gigabit, pci bridge > > Broadcom GigE - these are a problem, as I understand it > Broadcom will not supply register level programming info for > their chipsets except under NDA. > > and as these are blades you have no chance to plug in a > supported PCI NIC. Actually, they have. I'm pretty sure it was on this list that someone sent a link to the docs. I started working on a 57xx driver, but got side-tracked and no longer have access to one of the machines I was using. Maybe I can pop it off my task stack someday... BLS ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 20+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305 2009-05-22 15:01 ` blstuart @ 2009-05-22 15:22 ` Mathieu L. 0 siblings, 0 replies; 20+ messages in thread From: Mathieu L. @ 2009-05-22 15:22 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans > and as these are blades you have no chance to plug in a > supported PCI NIC. Hello, I don't know if that's relevant but I had no problem pluging in a supported PCI NIC card in my IBM eserver 325, after I found out the default (broadcom too I think) one was not supported. 3.4.0: net 02.00.00 8086/1229 7 0:fe020000 4096 1:00003001 64 2:fe000000 131072 Intel 82557/8/9/0/1 Fast Ethernet LAN Controller Cheers, Mathieu ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 20+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305 2009-05-22 13:51 ` Steve Simon 2009-05-22 15:01 ` blstuart @ 2009-05-23 6:13 ` Sergey Zhilkin 2009-05-23 11:36 ` erik quanstrom 1 sibling, 1 reply; 20+ messages in thread From: Sergey Zhilkin @ 2009-05-23 6:13 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 3310 bytes --] I have an PCI expansion unit. Adaptec Inc ASC-29320ALP Ultra320 SCSI Controller is lpuggit in it, and second port is free :) It's not a problem... Problem is with LSI Logic LSISAS1064ET PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS :) 2009/5/22 Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> > > lspci -n from IBM HS21 > > 00:00.0 0600: 8086:25d8 (rev b1) > Intel Corporation > 00:02.0 0604: 8086:25f7 (rev b1) > Intel Corporation > 00:03.0 0604: 8086:25e3 (rev b1) > Intel Corporation > 00:04.0 0604: 8086:25e4 (rev b1) > Intel Corporation > 00:05.0 0604: 8086:25e5 (rev b1) > Intel Corporation > 00:06.0 0604: 8086:25e6 (rev b1) > Intel Corporation > 00:07.0 0604: 8086:25e7 (rev b1) > Intel Corporation > 00:08.0 0880: 8086:1a38 (rev b1) > Intel Corporation 5000P 5000 Series Chipset DMA Engine > 00:10.0 0600: 8086:25f0 (rev b1) > Intel Corporation > 00:10.1 0600: 8086:25f0 (rev b1) > Intel Corporation > 00:10.2 0600: 8086:25f0 (rev b1) > Intel Corporation > 00:11.0 0600: 8086:25f1 (rev b1) > Intel Corporation > 00:13.0 0600: 8086:25f3 (rev b1) > Intel Corporation > 00:15.0 0600: 8086:25f5 (rev b1) > Intel Corporation > 00:16.0 0600: 8086:25f6 (rev b1) > Intel Corporation > 00:1c.0 0604: 8086:2690 (rev 09) > Intel Corporation > 00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:2688 (rev 09) > Intel Corporation > 00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:2689 (rev 09) > Intel Corporation > 00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:268a (rev 09) > Intel Corporation > 00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:268c (rev 09) > Intel Corporation > 00:1e.0 0604: 8086:244e (rev d9) > Intel Corporation 82801DB Hub Interface to PCI Bridge > 00:1f.0 0601: 8086:2670 (rev 09) > Intel Corporation > 00:1f.2 0101: 8086:2680 (rev 09) > Intel Corporation > 01:01.0 0300: 1002:515e (rev 02) > ATI Technologies Inc. Radeon ES1000 Radeon ES1000 > 02:00.0 0100: 1000:0056 (rev 02) > LSI Logic LSISAS1064ET PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS > 03:00.0 0604: 1166:0103 (rev c3) > Broadcom / ServerWorks BCM5715 Broadcom dual gigabit, pci bridge > 04:00.0 0200: 14e4:16ac (rev 12) > Broadcom Corporation > 05:00.0 0604: 1166:0103 (rev c3) > Broadcom / ServerWorks BCM5715 Broadcom dual gigabit, pci bridge > 06:00.0 0200: 14e4:16ac (rev 12) > Broadcom Corporation > 07:00.0 0604: 8086:3500 (rev 01) > Intel Corporation > 07:00.3 0604: 8086:350c (rev 01) > Intel Corporation > 09:00.0 0604: 8086:3510 (rev 01) > Intel Corporation > 09:01.0 0604: 8086:3514 (rev 01) > Intel Corporation > 0c:00.0 0604: 10b5:8114 (rev aa) > PLX Technology Inc. > 0e:00.0 0604: 10b5:8114 (rev aa) > PLX Technology Inc. > 0f:05.0 0100: 9005:8017 (rev 10) > Adaptec Inc ASC-29320ALP Ultra320 SCSI Controller > > Broadcom GigE - these are a problem, as I understand it > Broadcom will not supply register level programming info for > their chipsets except under NDA. > > and as these are blades you have no chance to plug in a > supported PCI NIC. > > ☹ > > -Steve > > -- С наилучшими пожеланиями Жилкин Сергей With best regards Zhilkin Sergey [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 4767 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 20+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305 2009-05-23 6:13 ` Sergey Zhilkin @ 2009-05-23 11:36 ` erik quanstrom 0 siblings, 0 replies; 20+ messages in thread From: erik quanstrom @ 2009-05-23 11:36 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans On Sat May 23 02:16:59 EDT 2009, szhilkin@gmail.com wrote: > I have an PCI expansion unit. Adaptec Inc ASC-29320ALP Ultra320 SCSI > Controller is lpuggit in it, and second port is free :) It's not a > problem... Problem is with LSI Logic LSISAS1064ET PCI-Express Fusion-MPT > SAS :) the lsi 1068 series sata/sas controllers are not currently supported. they looked moer complicated than competing products. if any combined mode sata/sas controller will do, you can use something based on the marvell orion (88se64xx). there's a driver in my contrib quanstro/sd. - erik ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 20+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305 2009-05-19 20:32 ` erik quanstrom 2009-05-22 11:27 ` Sergey Zhilkin @ 2009-05-26 9:19 ` Balwinder S Dheeman 2009-05-31 12:30 ` erik quanstrom 1 sibling, 1 reply; 20+ messages in thread From: Balwinder S Dheeman @ 2009-05-26 9:19 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans On 05/20/2009 02:04 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> Hi ! >> >> It seems that Plan9 boot loader doesn't support modern hardware from IBM :( >> >> May be someone from IBM can help :) >> >> P.S.: I have some IBM HS21 servers and I wish to use Plan9 on them. >> >> 2009/5/19 nocturnal <swehack@gmail.com> > > pci (or linux lspci -n) output would be helpful. I somehow, managed to install Plan 9 with the help of QEMU on a Lenovo machine, because 9load did not recognize DVD-RW on SATA bus, which indeed is configured in IDE Mode -- Product: IdeaCentre K200 5312-3CQ Operating system: GNU/Linux (Arch, Debian/testing), FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT and XP/SP3 are working fine. Original description: Intel� Core 2 Duo Processor E4600, 2GB, 250GB 7200RPM SATA HDD, no diskette drive, PCI/PCIe Tower (4x4), Integrated SiS Mirage3, 16x DVD-RW, 56K modem, 100/1000 Ethernet, DOS License [bdheeman@werc ~]$ lspci -n 00:00.0 0600: 1039:0671 00:01.0 0604: 1039:0003 00:02.0 0601: 1039:0968 (rev 01) 00:02.5 0101: 1039:5513 (rev 01) 00:03.0 0c03: 1039:7001 (rev 0f) 00:03.1 0c03: 1039:7001 (rev 0f) 00:03.3 0c03: 1039:7002 00:05.0 0101: 1039:1183 (rev 03) 00:06.0 0604: 1039:000a 00:07.0 0604: 1039:000a 00:0d.0 0200: 10ec:8185 (rev 20) 00:0e.0 0780: 14f1:2f20 00:0f.0 0403: 1039:7502 00:1f.0 0604: 1039:0004 01:00.0 0300: 1039:6351 (rev 10) 03:00.0 0200: 10ec:8136 (rev 01) Though, I'm not an expert kernel programmer, but I shall be happy to follow leads and, or pointers on making this work. I think, I need to add some quirks in /sys/src/boot/pc/sd{ata|bios}.c and /sys/src/9/pc/sdata.c as well. I however, am wondering, where the /sys/src/9/pc/sdbios.c is? -- Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman Registered Linux User: #229709 Anu'z Linux@HOME (Unix Shoppe) Machines: #168573, 170593, 259192 Chandigarh, UT, 160062, India Plan9, T2, Arch/Debian/FreeBSD/XP Home: http://werc.homelinux.net/ Visit: http://counter.li.org/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 20+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305 2009-05-26 9:19 ` Balwinder S Dheeman @ 2009-05-31 12:30 ` erik quanstrom 0 siblings, 0 replies; 20+ messages in thread From: erik quanstrom @ 2009-05-31 12:30 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans > I think, I need to add some quirks in /sys/src/boot/pc/sd{ata|bios}.c i think instead you need to add this line case case (0x1183<<16)|0x1039: /* SiS 966 */ to sdata.c after the existing sis entry. > and /sys/src/9/pc/sdata.c as well. I however, am wondering, where the > /sys/src/9/pc/sdbios.c is? there is none. - erik ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 20+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305 2009-05-19 20:21 ` Sergey Zhilkin 2009-05-19 20:32 ` erik quanstrom @ 2009-05-19 21:19 ` Eric Van Hensbergen 2009-05-19 23:05 ` geoff 1 sibling, 1 reply; 20+ messages in thread From: Eric Van Hensbergen @ 2009-05-19 21:19 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs Sorry, I have HS21's, but I've never tried booting native on them. Part of the problem will no doubt be that the CDROM is over a USB and seems to be flakey even when installing certain Linux distros. My solution (and the easiest path here) is to just use a virtualization environment on the blades (or other hardware). -eric On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Sergey Zhilkin <szhilkin@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi ! > > It seems that Plan9 boot loader doesn't support modern hardware from IBM :( > > May be someone from IBM can help :) > > P.S.: I have some IBM HS21 servers and I wish to use Plan9 on them. > > 2009/5/19 nocturnal <swehack@gmail.com> >> >> When booting the installcd on my ibm xserve 305 it says; >> Bios call failed: bios loading disabled >> no plan9.ini >> then it gives me a boot from: prompt but it doesn't matter which ide >> interface or device i try, it just brings me back to the prompt. >> FreeBSD is installed on this particular machine right now and it does in >> fact have a floppy so i'm gonna try the floppy too but it would be nice if >> someone could look into the source and see why it's giving this BIOS error. >> Or just point me to the correct source file if it is available online >> somewhere? >> -- >> >> >> Med vänliga hälsningar >> >> Stefan Midjich aka nocturnal >> [SWEHACK] http://swehack.se > > > > -- > С наилучшими пожеланиями > Жилкин Сергей > With best regards > Zhilkin Sergey > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 20+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305 2009-05-19 21:19 ` Eric Van Hensbergen @ 2009-05-19 23:05 ` geoff 2009-05-19 23:21 ` Francisco J Ballesteros 0 siblings, 1 reply; 20+ messages in thread From: geoff @ 2009-05-19 23:05 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans Ignore the complaint about the BIOS; it's a red herring. Lots of BIOSes have bugs that prevent 9load from booting through them, but unless you're attempting to boot from bios0 or sdB0, 9load is not using the BIOS to boot. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 20+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305 2009-05-19 23:05 ` geoff @ 2009-05-19 23:21 ` Francisco J Ballesteros 2009-05-20 18:38 ` hiro 2009-05-22 6:20 ` nocturnal 0 siblings, 2 replies; 20+ messages in thread From: Francisco J Ballesteros @ 2009-05-19 23:21 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs Is anyone using usb cdroms? (with other systems, I mean). Just curious. On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:05 AM, <geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote: > Ignore the complaint about the BIOS; it's a red herring. Lots of > BIOSes have bugs that prevent 9load from booting through them, but > unless you're attempting to boot from bios0 or sdB0, 9load is not > using the BIOS to boot. > > > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 20+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305 2009-05-19 23:21 ` Francisco J Ballesteros @ 2009-05-20 18:38 ` hiro 2009-05-22 6:20 ` nocturnal 1 sibling, 0 replies; 20+ messages in thread From: hiro @ 2009-05-20 18:38 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs I used to have an usb cd drive, but nowadays plan9 is the only thing I have which fits on one cd and thus I stopped using this medium. On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org> wrote: > Is anyone using usb cdroms? (with other systems, I mean). > Just curious. > > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:05 AM, <geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote: >> Ignore the complaint about the BIOS; it's a red herring. Lots of >> BIOSes have bugs that prevent 9load from booting through them, but >> unless you're attempting to boot from bios0 or sdB0, 9load is not >> using the BIOS to boot. >> >> >> > > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 20+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305 2009-05-19 23:21 ` Francisco J Ballesteros 2009-05-20 18:38 ` hiro @ 2009-05-22 6:20 ` nocturnal 2009-05-22 10:08 ` Sergey Zhilkin 2009-05-22 11:12 ` erik quanstrom 1 sibling, 2 replies; 20+ messages in thread From: nocturnal @ 2009-05-22 6:20 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1037 bytes --] Ok so i'm hearing a lot of "unsupported" here. I just wanted to mention that when it boots up from the CD it shows boot devices: fd0 so it seems like only floppy is recognized. This could be because this DVD-drive is kinda glitchy, FreeBSD had issues with it too when i installed it but i just kept trying and after a few timeouts it worked. I'll just have to get my hands on one of those floppy disks i keep hearing so much about from my grandfather. ;) 2009/5/20 Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org> > Is anyone using usb cdroms? (with other systems, I mean). > Just curious. > > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:05 AM, <geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote: > > Ignore the complaint about the BIOS; it's a red herring. Lots of > > BIOSes have bugs that prevent 9load from booting through them, but > > unless you're attempting to boot from bios0 or sdB0, 9load is not > > using the BIOS to boot. > > > > > > > > -- Med vänliga hälsningar Stefan Midjich aka nocturnal [SWEHACK] http://swehack.se [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1646 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 20+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305 2009-05-22 6:20 ` nocturnal @ 2009-05-22 10:08 ` Sergey Zhilkin 2009-05-22 11:12 ` erik quanstrom 1 sibling, 0 replies; 20+ messages in thread From: Sergey Zhilkin @ 2009-05-22 10:08 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 331 bytes --] How about disk storage ... HS21 have internal SAS controller that is unsopported by Plan9. > > I'll just have to get my hands on one of those floppy disks i keep hearing > so much about from my grandfather. ;) > > > > -- С наилучшими пожеланиями Жилкин Сергей With best regards Zhilkin Sergey [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 630 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 20+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305 2009-05-22 6:20 ` nocturnal 2009-05-22 10:08 ` Sergey Zhilkin @ 2009-05-22 11:12 ` erik quanstrom 1 sibling, 0 replies; 20+ messages in thread From: erik quanstrom @ 2009-05-22 11:12 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans > Ok so i'm hearing a lot of "unsupported" here. > I just wanted to mention that when it boots up from the CD it shows boot > devices: fd0 so it seems like only floppy is recognized. > > This could be because this DVD-drive is kinda glitchy, FreeBSD had issues > with it too when i installed it but i just kept trying and after a few > timeouts it worked. > > I'll just have to get my hands on one of those floppy disks i keep hearing > so much about from my grandfather. ;) it's most likely because your ide/sata chipset is not recognized. if your interested in a solution, the output of lspci -n from linux or pci from plan 9 would be helpful. - erik ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 20+ messages in thread
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