From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rgr@sdf.lonestar.org (Rob Ristroph) To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] no rio ? References: <2defc5740114720fe24f65d6045eef21@plan9.bell-labs.com> In-Reply-To: <2defc5740114720fe24f65d6045eef21@plan9.bell-labs.com> Message-ID: <878yr97mw7.fsf@rgristroph-austin.ath.cx> User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 21:50:00 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ed8c4f76-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >>>>> "David" == David Presotto 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