On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 05:03:07PM +0530, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan wrote: > On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan > wrote: > > On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan > > wrote: > >> I downloaded the usbinstamd64 image from the 9atom webpage and booted > >> it up. First, I tried amd64 (selection 0), in a second or so, some > >> text went past the screen quickly and the machine rebooted. I then > >> tried selection 1 (386pae), that booted up but quickly halted with > >> this: > >> > >> Plan 9 > >> E820: .... > >> ... > >> apic: 6 machs started; flat mode vectors > >> winbont ffff.ff hw fff8 > >> no capabilities > >> panic: kernel fault: no user process pc=f0162415 addr=0x000000a8 > >> panic: kernel fault: no user process pc=f0162415 addr=0x000000a8 > >> dumpstack disabled > >> cpu0: exiting > >> cpu0: spurious interrupt 39, last 0 > >> > >> and it hangs there. > > > > The mother board is ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3. > > > > > > Also for the record, I also tried the Labs plan9 usb image. That > didn't go past a few initial prints either. I didn't note them down > but it was different from the ones reported above with 9atom and > failed much earlier. > > -- > Ramakrishnan > it appears this motherboard is using usb 3 aka xhci. i don't know for certain but i don't think any plan 9 (fork or not-a-fork) has xhci support. looking through the archive, there was talk of xhci about a year ago. try disabling usb 3.0 in the bios setting and see if it makes progress when booting from usb.