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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:33:48 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Help needed - Boot Failure...
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> Video: ATI Rage XL
> Ethernet: (2) Intel Pro/100 ports
> CDROM as master on secondary
> Dual Pentium III 933MHz, 1GB ECC RAM
> PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse (3 button Logitech)

nice mouse.

> ATA and SCSI  HDD
>
> Upon booting the "live CD", I got the following:
>
> PBS1...
> Plan 9 from Bell Labs
> ELCR: 0E00
> pcirouting: 8086/1229 at pin 1 irq 164
> pcirouting: 8086/1229 at pin 1 irq 164
>
> Then the system froze. The only way to get out of the hangup was to reset.

i'm hoping that there's good news here.  while
there are many reasons the system can hang at this
point, i believe the most common one is a disagreement
with intel ide.  can you tell me what southbridge this
machine has?  i believe i've got a fix for ich0-10.
i've verified that it works on at least one ich5 and
one ich7r machine that were previously broken.
(note: ich7-ich10 parts are often ahci capable;
i think ahci mode is preferrable anyway.)

it's on sources as contrib/sd (for the kernel, see
contrib(1)) and contrib/9load-e820 (for 9load).
if your non-working machine is pxe capable, you
should be able to pxe boot the nonworking machine
from the working machine. unfortunately i don't
have a how-to-pxe guide. the information is all
in the manpages see ndb(8). and you'll need to run
ip/dhcpd and ip/tftpd.

if your having trouble (as i suspect you might with
these random and vague hints), please contact
me off list.

- erik