* RE: [9fans] new install hangs in termrc
@ 2004-06-22 11:25 Tiit Lankots
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From: Tiit Lankots @ 2004-06-22 11:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
> I have just installed a new machine. The floppy boot and
> download went fine, but when I boot from disk and login as
> glenda for the first time it hangs. I get the starting
> /bin/rc message but never see rio start.
Have you messed around with /rc/bin/termrc?
It may be waiting for a DHCP server to respond, if you uncommented
the ip/ipconfig -d line.
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* Re: [9fans] new install hangs in termrc
2004-06-22 9:22 Steve Simon
@ 2004-06-22 10:03 ` matt
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From: matt @ 2004-06-22 10:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
hi steve,
did you try booting it from the CD rom ?
this uses no disk access
m
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* [9fans] new install hangs in termrc
@ 2004-06-22 9:22 Steve Simon
2004-06-22 10:03 ` matt
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From: Steve Simon @ 2004-06-22 9:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Hi,
I have just installed a new machine. The floppy boot and download
went fine, but when I boot from disk and login as glenda for the
first time it hangs. I get the starting /bin/rc message but never
see rio start.
I had a probe around in the BIOS but cannot turn off USB (which has helped
in the past). I tried removing the ether card as this is not needed
just to boot but that makes no difference.
Rebooting from floppy and adding 'flag x +' to the top of
/n/fossil/rc/bin/termrc I see it hangs on timesync...
I commented out timesync and then it hangs on binding devices into /dev
(the fatal one appears to be sigma). Commenting this out just moves the
problem again but dosent solve it.
If i leave the machine to run for hours in its hung state eventually
I see:
diskWriteRaw failed date=xxxxxx part=3 addr=0; i/o error
at a rate of one every couple of hours.
If I set init=/386/bin/rc in /n/a:/plan9.ini then I can get a shell
prompt but just doing things like cd and ls is enough to get it to
hang again.
The machine is:
ASUS P4T-F motherboard
[http://uk.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=P4T-F&langs=11]
3Com 3C905CX-TXM ether card
Symbios 53C875J SCSI controller
nVidia AGP graphics card (no model number, but see attached).
I have attached pci.txt, irqalloc.txt and ioalloc.txt.
The machine is a bit funny as it has DDR ram and the disk
is Very fast but these shouldn't effect it sould they?
My next step is to try a trusty s3 graphics card. My nightmare
is that the scsi card is duff (not so easy to find).
I suspose I'am hoping somone has had similar problems before?
-Steve
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