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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:07:32 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Acer with 9atom.iso: out of physical memory
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> 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