From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200110011537.QAA22850@cthulhu.dircon.co.uk> Subject: Re: [9fans] A few installation queries... In-Reply-To: <00ab01c14a67$e8cf9650$a2b9c6d4@SOMA> from Boyd Roberts at "Oct 1, 2001 12:57:48 pm" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Digby Tarvin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 16:37:00 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: f93fbfbc-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > > apm ax=f000 cx=f000 dx=fdfa di=0 ebx=806c esi=-6c2dfc17 > > using fd0!dos!plan9.ini > > dev A0 port 1F0 config 0040 capabilities 2F00 mwdma 0007 udma 203F > > no such FAT partition fd0!dos > > Boot devices: fd0 fd1 sdC0 > > weird, sounds like you're in floppy/disk hell. read: > > http://home.fr.inter.net/boyd/plan9/usbflop.html > > maybe i should add the plan9.ini too. Thanks, I'll have a look. > > init: starting /bin/rc > > ndb/dns: can't read my ip address > > disk/fdisk: did not find master boot record > > i8042: fe returned to the ea command > > > > and the system hangs... > > i have some vague recollection that if you screw up the boot/partition > stuff during the install all sorts of horrible things happen. > I'll give the install another try. I'm not sure what I could have mucked up. I just used the plan9 fdisk utility to delete the second partition and replace it with a plan9 partition, and then accepted all the defaults for formatting it.... > > If I log on as user 'none', there is no rio but I sucessfully get a shell > > prompt, so I assume there is some problem with the initialization of the > > display adapter. I compared the 'vgadb' on the hard disk and the > > updated install disk (where the graphics seemed to work) > > and they were identical... > > yes, this is possible. my TFT LCD is XGAx16 (iirc) and that does > not work. setting it to be XGAx8 works fine. > I found another video adapter that appears in vgadb, and get exactly the same symptoms. So I guess it is not the video card after all. Regards, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt@acm.org http://www.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk