From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <41091572.8090301@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 08:19:14 -0700 From: Matt Pidd-Cheshire User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20040624 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Stuck start of Installation References: <7e7a4b97ca9ae93a5d94bc0039880c1d@collyer.net> <4107CCC8.9060906@myrealbox.com> In-Reply-To: <4107CCC8.9060906@myrealbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: cf0a7e5e-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > I do not know what Plan9 is waiting for at this stage...! >=20 > 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. >=20 > Bonne journ=E9e. > Philippe >=20 >=20 >=20 this may relate ... installing on my toshiba satellite was a problem from he^H^H the start.=20 the install would hang in /rc/bin/termrc trying to bind a nonexistent=20 parallel port. i patched the cd iso image directly to fix the termrc=20 script to ignore the binding to #L by blotting out with spaces and=20 re-burning the image to a CD-RW. the system booted and i was able to=20 install. [then i got a copy of the nvidia display driver from LLNL and had to=20 hack it to make the mouse pointer display and track correctly. on later=20 versions the display driver for the chipset (GeForce4 440 Go) doesn't=20 appear to work at all anymore]