* [9fans] Acer with 9atom.iso: out of physical memory
@ 2009-08-26 8:59 Bela Valek
2009-08-26 9:07 ` erik quanstrom
0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Bela Valek @ 2009-08-26 8:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
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
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* Re: [9fans] Acer with 9atom.iso: out of physical memory
2009-08-26 8:59 [9fans] Acer with 9atom.iso: out of physical memory Bela Valek
@ 2009-08-26 9:07 ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-26 10:26 ` Bela Valek
0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: erik quanstrom @ 2009-08-26 9:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> 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).
nope this is standard ich* behavior. the
standard sd driver doesn't work around it.
> - 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:
i'll take a look at this. looks like a bug. the number of e820
entries is also curious.
> -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?
what does /dev/swap say?
- erik
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* Re: [9fans] Acer with 9atom.iso: out of physical memory
2009-08-26 9:07 ` erik quanstrom
@ 2009-08-26 10:26 ` Bela Valek
2009-08-26 10:35 ` erik quanstrom
0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Bela Valek @ 2009-08-26 10:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
>
> i'll take a look at this. looks like a bug. the number of e820
> entries is also curious.
>
when its already installed, the system says at boot time: found 1 e820 entries
>
> what does /dev/swap say?
>
> - erik
>
I checked with disk/prep in live CD mode, 9fat = 100 MB, nvram = 512
B, fossil = 1.44 GB, swap = 370.63 MB
fossil reports 'out of physical memory' immediatelly when its mounting
the partition. I cant get to take a look at /dev/swap.
Thanks for helping: Béla
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* Re: [9fans] Acer with 9atom.iso: out of physical memory
2009-08-26 10:26 ` Bela Valek
@ 2009-08-26 10:35 ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-26 12:05 ` Bela Valek
0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: erik quanstrom @ 2009-08-26 10:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> fossil reports 'out of physical memory' immediatelly when its mounting
> the partition. I cant get to take a look at /dev/swap.
can you use the boot cd to modify plan9.ini to set
*e820print=1
?
- erik
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* Re: [9fans] Acer with 9atom.iso: out of physical memory
2009-08-26 10:35 ` erik quanstrom
@ 2009-08-26 12:05 ` Bela Valek
2009-08-26 12:23 ` erik quanstrom
0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Bela Valek @ 2009-08-26 12:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
2009/8/26 erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>:
>> fossil reports 'out of physical memory' immediatelly when its mounting
>> the partition. I cant get to take a look at /dev/swap.
>
> can you use the boot cd to modify plan9.ini to set
> *e820print=1
> ?
>
> - erik
>
>
I tried it, nothing changed
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* Re: [9fans] Acer with 9atom.iso: out of physical memory
2009-08-26 12:05 ` Bela Valek
@ 2009-08-26 12:23 ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-26 12:39 ` Bela Valek
0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: erik quanstrom @ 2009-08-26 12:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
On Wed Aug 26 08:07:15 EDT 2009, bvalek2@gmail.com wrote:
> 2009/8/26 erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>:
> >> fossil reports 'out of physical memory' immediatelly when its mounting
> >> the partition. I cant get to take a look at /dev/swap.
> >
> > can you use the boot cd to modify plan9.ini to set
> > *e820print=1
> > ?
> >
> > - erik
> >
> >
>
> I tried it, nothing changed
it wasn't expected that anything would change.
i was interested in the e820 output. if you
would send that along, that would be helpful.
- erik
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