Re: [9fans] no rio ?

[rgr@sdf.lonestar.org (Rob Ristroph)]

>>>>> "David" == David Presotto <presotto@closedmind.org> writes:
David>
David> - are $monitor and $vgasize set to anything?
David> - is aux/vga actually loading vga mode?
David> - if $monitor and $vgasize are set, what happens when you run
David>
David> 	aux/vga -m $monitor -l $vgasizeFrom: rgr@sdf.lonestar.org (Rob Ristroph)
David> Subject: [9fans] no rio ?
David> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
David> Date: 06 Jul 2003 16:48:50 -0500
David> Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
David>
David>
David> I downloaded the latest plan9.iso.bz2 from the web, and when I
David> installed it everything went ok, except that after rebooting I got
David> only the term% prompt and no graphical mode.  I have installed Plan9
David> on this hardware several times (earlier versions from a week or more
David> ago).  Also the floppy install had no problems bringing up the
David> graphical mode.
David>
David> So I think this might be a glitch with some recent update.
David>
David> This is the error message:
David>
David> rio: can't open display: initdisplay: /dev/draw/new: no frame buffer
David> init: rc exit status: rio 12: display open
David>
David> init: starting /bin/rc
David> term%
David>
David> Has anyone else installing a recent Plan 9 ( in the last week or so )
David> had a similar problem ?
David>
David> --Rob
David> ----------
David>

I can't answer your questions; I first wiped the machine and installed
another OS to test the hardware, and then I re-downloaded Plan 9 this
morning and tried again; this time Plan 9 won't overwrite the MBR, so
the old OS's bootloader keeps coming up, no matter how many times I do
"bootsetup" from the floppy.  So right now I can't even get to the
term% prompt.

Then I took my last remaining working Plan 9 box and wiped the drive
with dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda with a linux boot floppy, and tried
the latest Plan 9 on it; the install process goes fine and then it
just hangs right after running the BIOS; looking at the boot record
again from the linux floppy confirms that Plan 9 didn't put anything
there.

I made a second floppy and a new CDROM and got the same results, so
it's not my media.  Since installing another OS on the same drive
appears to work fine, I don't think it is my hardware.  I suppose I
could have gotten three successive broken ISO downloads, but it seems
unlikely.

I'm not going to have time to work on this project for a few days, so
I think I'll wait and see if other people have similar problems, and
if not start from scratch again.

--Rob