From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Booting up From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-ywyogmdgncohhxwhkhnglgwyon" Message-Id: <20010906073814.41CE319A2F@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 08:32:54 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ea551240-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-ywyogmdgncohhxwhkhnglgwyon Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit i don't know which chipset the Rage II Pro uses. there should be a file vgainfo.txt on the floppy. what does it contain? also, i'd try reducing the vgasize to vgasize=640x480x8 for installation since there is slightly less to go wrong with that, and try again. --upas-ywyogmdgncohhxwhkhnglgwyon Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from finch-punt-12.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.36]) by lavoro; Thu Sep 6 08:03:12 BST 2001 Received: from punt-1.mail.demon.net by mailstore for forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk id 999757289:11:22039:1; Thu, 06 Sep 2001 06:21:29 GMT Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by punt-1.mail.demon.net id aa1121793; 6 Sep 2001 6:21 GMT Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.30.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 8C34319A05; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 02:21:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.91]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id BF53819A00 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 02:20:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smsltd.demon.co.uk ([158.152.67.200]) by anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 15esWi-000KxF-0X for 9fans@cse.psu.edu; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 07:20:37 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by smsltd.demon.co.uk (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f85IOha02053 for 9fans@cse.psu.edu; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 19:24:43 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Nigel Horne To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20010905145603.A983F19A2F@mail.cse.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010905145603.A983F19A2F@mail.cse.psu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01090519244303.01653@smsltd.demon.co.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [9fans] Re: Booting up Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Reply-To: njh@bandsman.co.uk List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 19:24:43 +0100 On Wednesday 05 September 2001 3:56 pm, you wrote: >> that possibly means that the svga/xvga graphics hasn't been set > up correctly. which video adapter are you using? > i also wonder whether it has left the aux/vga output on the floppy. I thought it best to use the original plan9.ini file, so it looks like this. I have the ever present ATI Rage Pro II card. -------------cut here------------------------ *nomp=1 distname=plan9 partition=new bootargs=local!/bzroot ether0=type=NE2000 monitor=multisync75 vgasize=1024x768x24 mouseport=ps2 audio0=type=sb16 bootfile=fd0!dos!9pcflop.gz # installurl=http://204.178.31.2/magic/9down/compressed/999187141.zaeshx9htqe98es54mzjwepkt4wim723 -Nigel -- Nigel Horne. Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Typesetter. Owner of the brass band group of the Internet. ICQ#20252325 njh@bandsman.co.uk http://www.bandsman.co.uk/music.htm --upas-ywyogmdgncohhxwhkhnglgwyon--