[9fans] Acer with 9atom.iso: out of physical memory

[Bela Valek <bvalek2@gmail.com>]

Hi Everybody,

I try to install our favourite operating system on an Acer emachines
E525 laptop. Installation succeeded with Erik's 9atom.iso, but I
cannot boot. Here is the whole story:

- 1. Plan 9 install CD (of Aug. 15):

PBS1...
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
ELCR: 0C00
pcirouting: South Bridge 8086, 2919 not found

...aaaand hangup both in IDE and AHCI mode. not even Ctrl+Alt+Del
works. I suspect the buggy BIOS, but both Ubuntu 9.04 and WinXP worked
(the latter only in IDE mode).

- 2. Erik's 9atom.iso (of Aug. 16 22:13 PM) in IDE mode:

PBS1... Plan 9 from Bell Labs
ELCR: 0C00
sdata: blind probe 1f0
sdata: blind probe 170
aoepnp(nil)
found 54 e820 entries
Boot devices: fd0
boot from:

...aaaand nothing is accepted, CD is probably not recognized (I tried
the usual combinations).

- 3. Erik's 9atom.iso in AHCI mode works!

hard drive is sdE0, CD is sdE1, bad process or channel control
request: "dma on", touchpad is ps2 mouse, vga works with 1024x768x32,
installation successful.

-4. trying to boot, after I log in as glenda, fossil says repeatedly:

out of physical memory, no swap configured

RAM is 2 GB, partition is 2 GB, i selected fossil only, i accepted the
default in prepdisk (i admit, i didnt look at it carefully, but it was
never a problem before). Any suggestions?

Greetings: Béla