From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lyle Bickley To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:04:09 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.3 (Linux/2.6.27.23-0.1-pae; KDE/4.1.3; i686; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200907171904.11293.lbickley@bickleywest.com> Subject: [9fans] Help needed - Boot Failure... Topicbox-Message-UUID: 25691542-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 -- Lyle Bickley Bickley Consulting West Inc. http://bickleywest.com "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"