Re: [9fans] laptop install woes

[Jamie Gavahan <redpike@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 12:34, erik quanstrom<quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>> I also tried booting from Erik's atom iso, but don't get very far. eg:
>> PBS1
>> Plan 9 from Bell Labs
>> ELCR: 0CA0
>> pcirouting: south bridge 10de, 0260 not found
>> aoepnp(<nil>)
>> found 11 e820 entries
>> Boot devices: fd0 fd1
>> boot from:
>>
>> It doesn't detect IDE controller, so no local disk/CD-ROM to boot from.
>
> sorry.
>
> i did turn off probing legacy ports unless a recognized
> pci device was found.  this was paranoia on my part.  (i hope.)
> just trying to get past our sata drives with ide programming interface
> problem.  i've turned blind probing back on and will put out a new iso
> shortly.  i've also added jmicron ide.

I kind of figured that the 9atom iso had certain fixes/targeted certain hardware
so I wasn't shocked when it didn't work (as expected).

>> North Bridge: NVIDIA C51MV
>> South Bridge: MCP51 - ignored
>
> this is okay.
>
>> NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 graphics - works fine with 1024x768x16 VESA
>
> using the native nvidia driver is proablly a better idea.

I tried that initially, but was dropped to the Rc prompt after getting:
"aux/vga: nvidia: DID 0x0247 - 0x240 unsupported"

>> NVIDIA MCP51 ethernet controller - not detected
>
> there's no forcedeth support for plan 9.  sorry

This is pretty much a show-stopper for me.  I guess it's time to find a new
laptop with supported hardware.

I kind of expected this, but thought I'd put it out there in case someone,
somewhere was working on it.

Poor NVIDIA hardware support isn't surprising since they aren't very forthcoming
with hardware documentation.

>> NVIDIA MCP51 PATA controller - buggy? see below...
>
> the controller should be just fine.  i used to have an
> nvidia controller and it worked just fine until it was
> taken out by an electricial storm.
>
> ati and intel chipsets tend to have the best support.

I downloaded a new plan9.iso and do not get the timout anymore.

-Jamie