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Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 13:55:43 -0700
From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: [9fans] running in AMDs simnow
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I'm trying to get plan 9 to boot in AMDs simnow as part of tracking a
weird problem.

There's some weird issue between simnow and 9load.

Here is what happens, on floppy or iso:
initial probe, to find plan9.ini...

I then see 661,504 reads (in the case of the ISO) or few number of
reads (in the case of floppy)
and then it just hangs, then finally gets exception 6.

...FLAGS=10282 TRAP=6 ECODE=0 PC=3
  AX 00000000  BX 80815788  CX 00000000  DX 800fdf30
  SI 00001022  DI 00000024  BP 0000746b
  CS 0010 DS 0008  ES 0008  FS 0008  GS 0008
  CR0 80000011 CR2 00000000 CR3 0000c000
panic: exception/interrupt 6

Press almost any key to reset..

PC=3 is not encouraging :-)


The chipset is a standard 8111/8131 setup.

I'm confused, I'm going to try pointing it at the real ide drive next,
but suggestions are welcome.

Well, besides, 'Give up now", that is.

ron