From: Lyle Bickley <lbickley@bickleywest.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] Help needed - Boot Failure...
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:04:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907171904.11293.lbickley@bickleywest.com> (raw)
I am new to Plan 9 - so I started introducing myself to it with the "live CD" running on an older industrial single board computer (Celeron). Everything worked as expected - including the install.
Given those good results, I decided to create a server. I grabbed an older Supermicro Server which seemed to have all the major components I needed to boot and have video:
Video: ATI Rage XL
Ethernet: (2) Intel Pro/100 ports
CDROM as master on secondary
Dual Pentium III 933MHz, 1GB ECC RAM
PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse (3 button Logitech)
ATA and SCSI HDD
Upon booting the "live CD", I got the following:
PBS1...
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
ELCR: 0E00
pcirouting: 8086/1229 at pin 1 irq 164
pcirouting: 8086/1229 at pin 1 irq 164
Then the system froze. The only way to get out of the hangup was to reset.
I tried changing a few BIOS parameters related to I/O interrupts - but that didn't change the error condition.
The BIOS on the motherboard was an early edition - so I decided up update it to the latest BIOS.
After updating the BIOS and setting all the BIOS parameters appropriately, I tried booting the Plan 9 "live CD" again. This time I got the following:
PBS1...
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
ELCR: 0E20
At this point, the system froze.
I don't know enough about where to find help for this kind of problem online - I suspect that the ELCR messages describe an error or status condition(?).
I'd appreciate some guidance in tackling this problem...
Thanks in advance...
Cheers,
Lyle
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Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
next reply other threads:[~2009-07-18 2:04 UTC|newest]
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2009-07-18 2:04 Lyle Bickley [this message]
2009-07-18 2:33 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-20 6:07 ` Bela Valek
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