Re: [9fans] Install 4th ed on a Thinkpad T21?

Re: [9fans] Install 4th ed on a Thinkpad T21?

[Richard Miller]

No such trouble on my T21.  The next message I see after #Y0,#Y1 is

#l0: i82557: 10Mbps port 0x1800 ...

So perhaps your ethernet adapter is the problem - I have the Intel
mini-PCI combi card.  Try commenting out the ether0=type==elnk3 line.

-- Richard

Re: [9fans] Install 4th ed on a Thinkpad T21?

[Adrian Tritschler]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Miller <miller@hamnavoe.demon.co.uk> writes:

    Richard> No such trouble on my T21.  The next message I see after
    Richard> #Y0,#Y1 is #l0: i82557: 10Mbps port 0x1800 ...

    Richard> So perhaps your ethernet adapter is the problem - I have
    Richard> the Intel mini-PCI combi card.  Try commenting out the
    Richard> ether0=type==elnk3 line.

After much fiddling about and suggestions from a number of people, I'm
now in a position where I've managed to boot an install floppy on the
T21, but only by disabling usb and ethernet.  I've partitioned the
disk and got to the point where I need to access the network, since
without the network I can't access the install image.  The machine has
no FAT partition.  Below is the plan9.ini that I'm using.

*nomp=1
distname=plan9
partition=new
nobootprompt=local!/bzroot
#console=0
*noetherprobe=1
*nousbprobe=1
#pccard0=disabled
#ether0=type=589E media=10BaseT
monitor=xga
vgasize=1024x768x8
mouseport=ps2
bootfile=fd0!dos!9pcflop.gz
installurl=http://10.0.0.1/

Any further suggestions on how to get any further along on the
Thinkpad?

        Adrian


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Adrian Tritschler    mailto:Adrian.Tritschler@its.monash.edu.au
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Re: [9fans] Install 4th ed on a Thinkpad T21?

[Peter Bosch]

> I have tried a few times to boot the install floppy on an IBM Thinkpad
> T21, it gets part-way through the boot sequence and then stops.
>
> The last two message on the screen are:
>
> #Y0: TI PCI-1450 Cardbus Controller, 50000000 intl 11
> #Y1: TI PCI-1450 Cardbus Controller, 50100000 intl 11
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions, or a working plan9.ini that I can
> use to install plan9 on this machine?
>
> This is the one that is provided when I downloaded the OS.

I have had mixed success supporting TI cardbus controllers.  You
may want to add pcmcia0= to your plan9.ini to use the legacy PCMCIA
driver.    I never had problems using the cardbus on my TP X21 with a
Ricoh cardbus controller.

peter.

[9fans] Install 4th ed on a Thinkpad T21?

[Adrian Tritschler]

I have tried a few times to boot the install floppy on an IBM Thinkpad
T21, it gets part-way through the boot sequence and then stops.

The last two message on the screen are:

#Y0: TI PCI-1450 Cardbus Controller, 50000000 intl 11
#Y1: TI PCI-1450 Cardbus Controller, 50100000 intl 11

Does anyone have any suggestions, or a working plan9.ini that I can
use to install plan9 on this machine?

This is the one that is provided when I downloaded the OS.

*nomp=1
distname=plan9
partition=new
nobootprompt=local!/bzroot
#console=0
ether0=type==elnk3
monitor=xga
vgasize=1024x768x8
mouseport=ps2
bootfile=fd0!dos!9pcflop.gz
installurl=http://...

        Adrian

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Microcomputers, Infrastructure Services    Tel: +61.3.990.54794
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Re: [9fans] Install 4th ed on a Thinkpad T21?

[Dean Prichard]

you might try going into the thinkpad bios and disabling everything
you don't need, i had simalar problems w/ the 3rd ed. on a t21 till
i did that.

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Adrian Tritschler wrote:

> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:35:43 GMT
> From: Adrian Tritschler <Adrian.Tritschler@its.monash.edu.au>

> Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
> Subject: [9fans] Install 4th ed on a Thinkpad T21?
>
> I have tried a few times to boot the install floppy on an IBM Thinkpad
> T21, it gets part-way through the boot sequence and then stops.
>
> The last two message on the screen are:
>
> #Y0: TI PCI-1450 Cardbus Controller, 50000000 intl 11
> #Y1: TI PCI-1450 Cardbus Controller, 50100000 intl 11
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions, or a working plan9.ini that I can
> use to install plan9 on this machine?
>
> This is the one that is provided when I downloaded the OS.
>
> *nomp=1
> distname=plan9
> partition=new
> nobootprompt=local!/bzroot
> #console=0
> ether0=type==elnk3
> monitor=xga
> vgasize=1024x768x8
> mouseport=ps2
> bootfile=fd0!dos!9pcflop.gz
> installurl=http://...
>
>         Adrian
>
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> Adrian Tritschler    mailto:Adrian.Tritschler@its.monash.edu.au
> Microcomputers, Infrastructure Services    Tel: +61.3.990.54794
> ITS Division, P.O. Box 28C              Mobile: +61.408.145.149
> Monash University, Vic, Australia, 3800.   Fax: +61.3.990.54746
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Re: [9fans] Install 4th ed on a Thinkpad T21?

[Don]

> you might try going into the thinkpad bios and disabling everything
> you don't need, i had simalar problems w/ the 3rd ed. on a t21 till
> i did that.
>
werd, lots of my laptops seem to have issues with port address
clashing. My solution was to disable the less desirable device
and go on with what I had, however, thanks to plan9.ini's new
ioexclude= attribute u might be able to get around this. I'm
not sure if drivers will react to these changes, but, it
might be worth a shot. If one device is forced to not use a
port range does it know to distribute the functionality to
another range? Is this what OSs like Windows do? Anyways, a
range that seems to be consistantly clashing between audio
and pcmcia is 0x300-0x301.
Good luck
Don