Re: [9fans] Stuck start of Installation

[Matt Pidd-Cheshire <mattjpc@gmail.com>]

Philippe on f7400 wrote:
> I finally took my laptop apart, had a close look
> at what I could do to disable the Ethernet card,
> decided there was nothing I could do and put it
> back together.
> 
> Now, before I give up on this one, I'm looking
> at what could be the reason of this hang up
> and I'm still trying (hoping) to find a way
> to have it boot.
> 
> I also have try some more solutions like setting
> up my router as a DHCP server, having no router
> at all but a direct connection to the DSL modem,
> playing with the PXE agent menu...but still no luck.
> 
> I do not know what Plan9 is waiting for at this stage...!
> 
> If someone could point me to some documents on
> how the boot procedure goes with Plan9 that will
> be nice before I go shopping for a new unit.
> 
> Bonne journée.
> Philippe
> 
> 
> 

this may relate ...

installing on my toshiba satellite was a problem from he^H^H the start. 
the install would hang in /rc/bin/termrc trying to bind a nonexistent 
parallel port. i patched the cd iso image directly to fix the termrc 
script to ignore the binding to #L by blotting out with spaces and 
re-burning the image to a CD-RW. the system booted and i was able to 
install.

[then i got a copy of the nvidia display driver from LLNL and had to 
hack it to make the mouse pointer display and track correctly. on later 
versions the display driver for the chipset (GeForce4 440 Go) doesn't 
appear to work at all anymore]