From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <87f034ae0601040019x34daf965rcb172ea06e8dfc12@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 03:19:59 -0500 From: Matt Stewart To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [9fans] some installation problems (was "panic: vmap") Topicbox-Message-UUID: d0fc0734-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 The fix worked wonderfully! (see thread "panic: vmap") I was able to install it from a graphical environment using VESA. However, there are some more issues that should be dealt with. The wiki gives the following instructions to modify /lib/vgadb: ramfs ed /lib/vgadb 28683 /Stealth/ =090xC0045=3D"Stealth 64 Vers. 1.05" a =090xC0045=3D"Stealth 64 Vers. 2.03" . w 28712 q If you select Boot at startup, you aren't given write permission to /lib/vgadb, and as a result, these instructions can't be followed. If you select Install at startup, you can do this just fine. However, executing "ramfs" produces the following output: '/bin/boot' file does not exist. Luckily you don't even need the temporary filesystem, because a write to /lib/vgadb works just fine. If this behavior is how it should be, the wiki should be changed, but I will wait on that until it's decided what the desired behavior is. The following is just a suggestion. When Install is selected, a few files are missing from /bin. One of them is p. If a user is forced to exist in a pre-install text screen, this would be a big help in reading files. The last is in regards to my video card. When I boot and select the vga monitor, I am taken to a vga screen running an extremely slowly printing and responding terminal, and the mouse cursor is a distorted image. When started by answering vga as the monitor, the vga terminal (slowly) prints messages resembling "idle stat 172 put 177 scr f02f18a4 F0162156". I can instead pick none for the monitor and start the vga screen with aux/vga, the result being the same slow terminal, but without the idle messages. The output of "aux/vga -p" indicated that it was (correctly) using the nvidia driver, so I take this to mean that it doesn't work for my model ("Geforce FX 5700LE VGA BIOS XDN1" in the BIOS). Adding this name to vgadb did not help. Matthew Stewart