Re: [9fans] Install problems

Re: [9fans] Install problems

[John Stalker]

>i have single 40 Gb SAMSUNG SP4002H (7200RPM)U/D100 HDD
>it`s on Primary IDE Master (CDROM is on Secondary IDE
>Master)
>what else, i made plan9 FAT partition (logical) on hda7

I don't suppose you a free primary partition on the disk? That
might be the problem, or at least part of it.

--
John Stalker
Department of Mathematics
Princeton University
(609)258-6469

[9fans] install problems

[YAMANASHI Takeshi]

Did anyone install the ISO successfully using
fossil only configuration, ie without venti?

When I tried, fossil complained with "unable to
connect to venti" errors at mountfs.
-- 

Re: [9fans] install problems

[andrey mirtchovski]

> Did anyone install the ISO successfully using
> fossil only configuration, ie without venti?
>
> When I tried, fossil complained with "unable to
> connect to venti" errors at mountfs.
> --

i have a machine i'm trying to install fossil-only here, but i can't
get as far as booting the fossil-only system post-install. the install
goes well but somehow the partition table never gets updated. MBR
can't find 9fat and booting from the cd after such an install shows
only /dev/sdC0/data and no partitions.

Re: [9fans] install problems

[Alexander Sychev]

Hi!

Yes, I did.  I didn't have any problems.

But it was some time ago.

The latest ISO image ( from 11 november 2005 ) I used only for updating.  
And I didn't have any problems too.

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 05:41:35 +0300, YAMANASHI Takeshi <9.nashi@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Did anyone install the ISO successfully using
> fossil only configuration, ie without venti?
>
> When I tried, fossil complained with "unable to
> connect to venti" errors at mountfs.


-- 
Best regards,
   santucco

Re: [9fans] install problems

[andrey mirtchovski]

more install problems for me on another box:

copydist fails after a few 'entire cache is busy; cache is okay again' with:

cacheLocalData: addr=229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 50dd4ff
cacheLocalData: addr=229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 50dd4ff
cacheLocalData: addr=229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 50dd4ff
cacheLocalData: addr=229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 50dd4ff
cacheLocalData: addr=229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 3e9d4a9b
replica/applylog: appending to db: block label mismatch

afterwards every attempt to copydist fails with:

cacheLocalData: addr=226 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 5abcafcd
cmp: cmp 23095: read error

Re: [9fans] install problems

[Russ Cox]

> cacheLocalData: addr=229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 50dd4ff
> cacheLocalData: addr=229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 50dd4ff
> cacheLocalData: addr=229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 50dd4ff
> cacheLocalData: addr=229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 50dd4ff
> cacheLocalData: addr=229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 3e9d4a9b
> replica/applylog: appending to db: block label mismatch

is your disk failing?

russ

Re: [9fans] install problems

[andrey mirtchovski]

> is your disk failing?
>
> russ
>

i don't think so -- it booted other operating systems fine beforehand
and went through the venti formatting step just fine. i saw one extra
error now when i tried it again:

Reformat /dev/sdC0/fossil (yes, no)[no]: yes
test: unknown operator memory
test: unknown operator memory
test: unknown operator memory
Done.

Re: [9fans] install problems

[David Leimbach]

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Actually this happens to me too but not when I use the floppy install. It
appears to be related to the CD driver.

I reported this sometime this summer I recall, along with another person.

People suggested that perhaps DMA being on or off was a issue on the CD
drive but my motherboard didn't have DMA support until about a month or two
ago when Russ added it to sources.



On 11/21/05, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
>
> > cacheLocalData: addr=229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 50dd4ff
> > cacheLocalData: addr=229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 50dd4ff
> > cacheLocalData: addr=229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 50dd4ff
> > cacheLocalData: addr=229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 50dd4ff
> > cacheLocalData: addr=229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 3e9d4a9b
> > replica/applylog: appending to db: block label mismatch
>
> is your disk failing?
>
> russ
>

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Re: [9fans] install problems

[andrey mirtchovski]

managed to install cleanly after doing a 'dd -if /dev/zero -of
/dev/sdC0/data' to the disk. however i'm still seeing interesting
issues:

- 9pcf doesn't initialize the display properly, the cd boot does
- keyboard works only sporadically, well it works roughly one time out
of 10 at the 'root is from' prompt with both 9pccd and 9pcf kernels.
the interesting thing here is that it works fine during the install or
even at the plan9 startup menu

at this point i still don't have a working plan 9 installation so
forgive me for not being able to debug properly :(

Re: [9fans] install problems

[Arvindh Rajesh Tamilmani]

I got a fossil-only standalone system (PC with Intel 865G chipset)
running successfully with Nov 13 ISO.

1) While installing from CD, after "init: starting /bin/rc" message, I got

	echo: write error: bad process or channel control request

twice. I guess this is because of 'echo rwm on' to CDROM's /dev/sd*/ctl in
/sys/lib/dist/pc/sub/termrc.

2) When the installation prompts for 'use DMA for ide drives[yes]:', answering
"no" doesn't turn off DMA.  Looks like /sys/lib/dist/pc/sub/termrc/termrc:22
turns on DMA well before this prompt.

3) copydist failed in the same way described by Andrey.

> cacheLocalData: addr=229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 50dd4ff
> cacheLocalData: addr=229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 50dd4ff
> cacheLocalData: addr=229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 50dd4ff
> cacheLocalData: addr=229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 50dd4ff
> cacheLocalData: addr=229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 3e9d4a9b
> replica/applylog: appending to db: block label mismatch

I had monitor set to vesa at this point.  When I retried the
installation with monitor set to xga, copydist was successful (with a
few 'entire cache is busy; cache is okay again' messages).

When I tried Plan 9 installation a few months back (July), I had
display problems with the official ISO.  plan9vesa.iso worked (with
monitor set to xga; I didn't try monitor=vesa then).

4) fmtfossil gives the following error messages, but the installation
is not affected.

> Reformat /dev/sdC0/fossil (yes, no)[no]: yes
> test: unknown operator memory
> test: unknown operator memory
> test: unknown operator memory
> Done.

Probably, /sys/lib/dist/pc/inst/fmtfossil:61 should be changed to
		n=`{cat /dev/swap | grep user | sed 's/^[0-9]+\/([0-9]+) .*/\1/'}
in line with recent change (on 2005/10/31) to /sys/src/9/port/devcons.c:893

[I am new to Plan 9.  Hope I didn't misinterpret any of the
installation messages.]

Thanks,
Arvindh

Re: [9fans] install problems

[andrey mirtchovski]

update: i took the good disk from the bad machine and put it in the
good machine with the bad disk.

andrey

ps: two things worth mentioning: i had optimistically set the vga
resolution to 1600x1200 which didn't work for this particular nvidia
card. it worked when i toned it down to 1280x1024.

the latest pcf config file has 'realmode' defined in the 'misc'
section. this prevents it from being started at boot time and aux/vga
complains that there's no /dev/realmode during its vesa initialization
routine. i moved it to the 'link' section. i see that the newer pc*
config files on sources have it at the right place, so i guess i was
just unfortunate to burn my cd in the brief period where the kernels
were borken.

Re: [9fans] install problems

[Russ Cox]

> 1) While installing from CD, after "init: starting /bin/rc" message, I got
>
>         echo: write error: bad process or channel control request
>
> twice. I guess this is because of 'echo rwm on' to CDROM's /dev/sd*/ctl in
> /sys/lib/dist/pc/sub/termrc.

You're right.  I redirected that echo's standard error to /dev/null.

> 2) When the installation prompts for 'use DMA for ide drives[yes]:', answering
> "no" doesn't turn off DMA.  Looks like /sys/lib/dist/pc/sub/termrc/termrc:22
> turns on DMA well before this prompt.

You're right.  I commented out the nosddma etc. lines, which I'd forgotten
about.

> 3) copydist failed in the same way described by Andrey.
>
> > cacheLocalData: addr=229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 50dd4ff
> > cacheLocalData: addr=229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 50dd4ff
> > cacheLocalData: addr=229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 50dd4ff
> > cacheLocalData: addr=229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 50dd4ff
> > cacheLocalData: addr=229 type got 0 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 3e9d4a9b
> > replica/applylog: appending to db: block label mismatch

This I don't understand.

> I had monitor set to vesa at this point.  When I retried the
> installation with monitor set to xga, copydist was successful (with a
> few 'entire cache is busy; cache is okay again' messages).

I doubt that the vesa/non-vesa is related.  Probably it's some
non-deterministic bug and you just didn't trip over it the second time.

> 4) fmtfossil gives the following error messages, but the installation
> is not affected.
>
> > Reformat /dev/sdC0/fossil (yes, no)[no]: yes
> > test: unknown operator memory
> > test: unknown operator memory
> > test: unknown operator memory
> > Done.
>
> Probably, /sys/lib/dist/pc/inst/fmtfossil:61 should be changed to
>                 n=`{cat /dev/swap | grep user | sed 's/^[0-9]+\/([0-9]+) .*/\1/'}
> in line with recent change (on 2005/10/31) to /sys/src/9/port/devcons.c:893

Right again.  Fixed.

Thanks.
Russ

[9fans] Install Problems

[Kiran Reddy]

Hi All,

I am trying to install plan9 on my workstation and it does not seem to go
further to the PREPDISK. 

Steps i followed
Created a Boot disk 
I have not edited any files it was the default.
using fdisk i created a plan9 partition of 256MB
then it takes to preppart
created 9fat fs and swap 
when i write and quit
it turn back to same prompt and never go further.

is their any thing else i need to follow.

Any help on this is appreciated.


Kiran Reddy

Registered Linux User #343444

[9fans] Re: Install problems

[John Stalker]

> ok, but why partdisk can`t find my hard disk partitions?

I don't know, so I was hoping someone else would suggest something.
It would help to know a bit more about the hardware, though.  Is
this IDE or SCSI, one or more disks, etc.
--
John Stalker
Department of Mathematics
Princeton University
(609)258-6469

Re: [9fans] Install problems

[A.S. Kukhar]

i have single 40 Gb SAMSUNG SP4002H (7200RPM)U/D100 HDD
it`s on Primary IDE Master (CDROM is on Secondary IDE
Master)
what else, i made plan9 FAT partition (logical) on hda7


> I don't know, so I was hoping someone else would suggest
> something. It would help to know a bit more about the
> hardware, though.  Is this IDE or SCSI, one or more
> disks, etc.

[9fans] problems with nvidia geforce2Go card and ps2 mouse

[alfonso acosta]

Hi:

I tried to install plan9 on my Dell inspiron 8200 laptop. When booting
everything seems to go fine except:

South bridge 8086, 248C not found

rio starts but the display shows lots of thin lines mixed up with
everything else. I know that the wiki page of PC hardware says the
geforce chipset isnt supported but maybe the problem can be solved
easily (at least the display shows someting).

Appart from that, the pointer doesnt move from the top left side of the
installation program window.

Thanks in advance:

Alfonso Acosta

PS: heres my plan9.ini file

*nomp=1
distname=plan9
partition=new
nobootprompt=local!/bzroot
#console=0
monitor=xga
vgasize=1024x768x32
mouseport=ps2
bootfile=fd0!dos!9pcflop.gz
installurl=http://204.178.31.2/magic/9down4e/compressed/1044646286.gxq93xmd85ajkpfsbxdsqxwur3rbxvxm

[9fans] install problems

[A.S. Kukhar]

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hi,
i have geforce2 mx 400 64mb card (on
MSI K7T266Pro2-U VIA KT266A motherboard)
and when booting from install floppy i
get the following:

	pcirouting: South bridge 1106, 3177 not found
and
	pcirouting: South bridge 1106/3177 unknown

graphics mode is allright but partdisk
founds only my cdrom device:

	sdD0 - SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152L C100COM

(vgainfo.txt and pci.txt are attached)
any help would be great, thanks
-kyxap







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06.00.00 1106/3099   0
06.04.00 1106/b099   0
07.80.00 151f/0000  10 0:0000ec01 16
0c.03.00 1106/3038  11 4:0000e001 32
0c.03.00 1106/3038   5 4:0000e401 32
0c.03.00 1106/3038  10 4:0000e801 32
0c.03.20 1106/3104   5 0:dfffff00 256
06.01.00 1106/3177   0
01.01.8a 1106/0571 255 4:0000fc01 16
04.01.00 1106/3059  10 0:0000dc01 256
03.00.00 10de/0110  11 0:de000000 16777216 1:d0000008 134217728

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main->snarf
vga->snarf
nvidia->snarf
+vgactlw type nvidia
-vgactlw type nvidia
vga->attr: vid=0x10DE
vga->attr: did=0x0110
vga->dump
vga misc             67
vga feature          00
vga sequencer        03 00 03 00 02
vga crt              5F 4F 50 82 54 80 BF 1F - 00 4F 0D 0E 00 00 06 40
                     9C 8E 8F 28 1F 96 B9 A3 - FF
vga graphics         00 00 00 00 00 10 0E 00 - FF
vga attribute        00 01 02 03 04 05 14 07 - 38 39 3A 3B 3C 3D 3E 3F
                     0C 00 0F 08 00
vga virtual         0 0
vga panning         off
vga clock[1] f      350000000
vga clock[1] d i m          0        0       -       14
vga clock[1] n p q r      255        4       -        0        0
vga vmz              67108864
vga apz                     0
vga linear                  1
nvidia->dump
nvidia Crt18         FF 00 3D 83 18 00 00 03 - 80 FA 00 10 80 00 34 B2
                     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 12 11 3E 30
                     05 FF 00 20 69 00 3E 30 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                     00 00 00 00 00 66 66 00 - 3D 30 04 00 00 00 00 00
                     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
nvidia dclk m n p    28338065 12 - 190 3
nvidia CrystalFreq   14318180 Hz
nvidia cursor2       0
nvidia vpll          3be0c
nvidia pllsel        500
nvidia general       110
nvidia config        9c10000

vmf 0 vmdf 75000000 vf1 350000000 vbw 75000000
using frequency 75000000 rr 69.24 membw 54448777
nvidia->options
vga->init
nvidia->init
dbdumpmode
type=multisync75, size=1024x768x8
frequency=75000000
x=1024 (0x400), y=768 (0x300), z=8 (0x8)
ht=1344 (0x540), shb=1096 (0x448), ehb=1232 (0x4D0)
shs=1072 (0x430), ehs=1232 (0x4D0)
vt=806 (0x326), vrs=771 (0x303), vre=777 (0x309)
hsync=45, vsync=45, interlace=0
vga->attr: vid=0x10DE
vga->attr: did=0x0110
vga->dump
vga flag             Fdump|Finit|Fsnarf
vga misc             E3
vga feature          00
vga sequencer        03 01 0F 00 0A
vga crt              A3 7F 7F 87 86 9A324 F5 - 00 60 00 00 00 00 00 00
                    303 292FF 80 002FF325 A3 -7FF
vga graphics         00 00 00 00 00 50 05 0F - FF
vga attribute        00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 - 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F
                     01 00 0F 00 00
vga virtual         1024 768
vga panning         off
vga clock[0] f       75000000
vga clock[0] d i m     104905        0       -       13
vga clock[0] n p q r      136        1       -        0        0
vga clock[1] f      350000000
vga clock[1] d i m          0        0       -       14
vga clock[1] n p q r      255        4       -        0        0
vga vmz              67108864
vga apz                     0
vga linear                  1
nvidia->dump
nvidia flag          Ulinear|Hlinear|Fdump|Finit|Foptions|Fsnarf
nvidia Crt18        7FF 00 06 83 18 00 00 03 - 80 FA 00 10 80 00 34 B2
                     01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 FC 00 00 12 11 3E 30
                     05 FF 00 20 69 00 3E 30 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                     00 00 00 00 00 66 66 00 - 3D 30 04 00 00 00 00 00
                     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
nvidia dclk m n p    74895095 13 - 136 1
nvidia CrystalFreq   14318180 Hz
nvidia cursor2       0
nvidia vpll          1880d
nvidia pllsel        10000700
nvidia general       100
nvidia config        9c10000

main->exits

Re: [9fans] Re: Thinknic and plan9

[dmr]

 > Oracle have been trying to market this box under various
 > guises for something like 5 years, they should give up.

As a bit of amusement, Oracle was very close (back in fairly
early Lucent Inferno BU time) to licensing Inferno for
this or similar boxes.  It was close enough that Ellison
and Rich McGinn had dinner to shake hands over the deal.
Then, quite suddenly, the deal fell apart, preumably
not because the dinner went poorly.

	Dennis

[9fans] Install problems

[Mike Fletcher]

I am having trouble trying to install Plan9 rel.3 on my laptop.
It's a TI Extensa 565, 75MHz Pentium with 40M ram and a free
500MB area on the disk (the first 250MB belongs to MS-DOS.)

My install disk is from the 12 Apr 01 disk image.  Here's what
happens:

Insert disk and power on.
PBS works ok
apm  is found -- is this the power management Bios ?
loader find fd0!dos!plan9.ini
dev A0 1F0  is found -- must be the IDE disk ctlr
9PCFLOP.GZ is found and unzipped (many dots followed by sizes
    looks like the old text+data+bss stuff)
loader finds cpu0, #y0 (an i82365SL), and dev A0 again and says:
5830 free pages
23320K bytes
114520K swap
root is from     offers local!/bzroot as the default - I take it.
next comes     kfs...boot: nop...      and then
                                                Different errors
bunzip2: decompress failed                      sometimes
kfs: premature eof reading /386/bin/ip/ppp      <----
boot fatal: read nop: file does not exist
panic: boot process died: unknown               but always this
ktrace /kernel/path 801064e2 80007ce4           <---- address
 [a hex dump follows this -- and finally...]
cpu0: exiting

And the machine freezes.

I have rebuilt the diskette several times and tried it in other 
systems and get either some version of a rio screen, or at least 
an rc % prompt.

Possible problem may be that my Bios shadows the system ROM to
F605-FFFF, and there is no way to disable shadowing in the Bios
setup.  Am I just outta luck?
                                                       
I have a working Plan9 system on a desktop machine (built from
an earlier version of 9disk.9fd) if that could help me debug
things; but the laptop has no network card.

I'd appreciate any ideas you may have on how to get the install
working.

Thanks,

-Mike Fletcher
 Sys Admin - EECS
 Tulane University