From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 08:25:31 +0100
From: Andrew Lynch lynch@ccigate.cci.de
Subject: [9fans] plan9 on Sparc IPC ?
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> Date:          Sun, 26 Apr 1998 11:35:00 -0400
> From:          Dave M Klint <davek@csh.rit.edu>
> 
> >I tried plan9 terminal on my Sparc IPC, but it hung after
> >having downloaded its kernel(9ss) from tftp server.
> >The same kernel runs on SS2 without any stress.
[...]
> You may have taken care of this
> already, but plan9 for Sparc doesn't support the vga
> card that's in most of the IPC's, so you have to 
> physically remove the card and plug the monitor into the
> black and white output.  Then it should work.

What "vga" card???

My IPC has a cg3 card installed and shows the same symptoms (tftp 
download, then hangs - not even Stop-A works). I tried hardcoding the 
kernel for the cg3 which made no difference, the same happens with a 
terminal attached to the serial port (keyboard disconnected, with or 
without cg3 removed).

I can't try just the onboard bw2, as that seems to be broken (no picture, 
not even with SunOS). I hope it might just be a fuse, but I've never got 
round to looking at it so far. Same goes for the boot problem - I would 
like to find out just how far the system gets... (my guess is it stops 
somewhere before the graphics card stuff)

Andrew.