[9fans] Re: iso won't boot on T61 [reason found]

[lejatorn@gmail.com]

Ok, turns out all the problems were coming from my hdd in SATA mode,
seems like it's not supported by plan9 yet...

The iso boots fine if I switch the drive to ide compat mode in the 
bios. Of course, that means if I want sata when booting on linux (which
is also installed on that machine) I need to switch it back again 
everytime. :/

Any chance of SATA for that drive to be supported in the near future on
plan9?

Also I'd like your opinions on sata vs pata please? Like, is operating
the hdd in compat mode in Linux a big loss compared as if operated in
AHCI mode? Do I loose speed for example?

Cheers,
Mathieu

On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 10:28:49AM +0100, lejatorn@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've just got a brand new T61 on which I'd like to install plan9, but to
> no avail so far.
> First, and I'm not sure whether this is normal or not, the boot cd does
> not find what to boot from and requires that I enter the kernel path, 
> which seems to be "sdC0!cdboot!9pccd.gz". That one starts booting 
> fine, but it soon hangs after those lines are displayed:
> 
> cpu0: 1995MHz GenuineIntel Xeon5000-series (cpuid: AX 0x06FD DX
> 0xBFEBFBFF)
> ELCR: 0C00
> pcirouting: Cannot find south bridge PCI.255.31.7
> mapfree: unallocated unbacked physical memory: losing 0xFED20000,
> 19791872
> #Y0: Ricoh 476 PCI/Cardbus bridge, F8300000 intl 10
> 
> Can anyone help with that please?
> 
> Cheers,
> Mathieu.
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