From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <43932E13.4090507@telecable.es> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 18:57:39 +0100 From: Nicolas Victorero Mier User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] 9load: boot time variables References: <33ce9c5ea810f3e5aa146e11464bdd0e@yourdomain.dom> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: b7b67304-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Russ Cox wrote: >Instead of making us read the source code, >could you explain what it does in email? > > > >>And would help people during the install, because >>sometimes you need *norealmode=, *noe820scan=, installurl=, etc to >>make it work. >> >> > >These are intended to be exceptional cases, not everyday options. >If you need them to make Plan 9 work on a given machine, tell us. >Does anyone have a machine that still requires *noe820scan? >I know no one requires *norealmode, because that's redundant >with *noe820scan the way things are currently set up. > >Russ > > > Hello, About a month ago trying to install Plan 9 on an HP NX7000 laptop, allways end up with a "No physical memmory" message, somewhere on the wiki said that some BIOS have problems reporting memmory size, and the solution is to use *maxmem= in plan9.ini, as the laptop don't have floppy, trying that involved extracting the plan9.ini from the img, repacking it and then burning a new CD. And that didn't solve the problem (it went away with the version from 20051124 :)). I think having an easier way to provide that variables at boot time would be nice, even just to do some testing when *something* goes wrong. Btw, the laptop has an ati radeon 9200, and a 1680x1050 TFT, so far i've only been able to work at 1280x1024x16, with either monitor=vesa/xga/multisync, but more than that resolution it don't works, any experience with that, or tips where to learn how to make it work better?. Also in the same laptop, i'm having problems with the usb mouse, suddenly it reports an i/o error on the rio screen and ceases to work (i have to reboot to have it working again). Thanks & Greetings Nico