Re: [9fans] dual boot

[Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <vu3rdd@gmail.com>]

On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Nick Owens <mischief@9.offblast.org> wrote:
> On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 05:03:07PM +0530, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan wrote:
>> On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
>> <vu3rdd@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
>> > <vu3rdd@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> I downloaded the usbinstamd64 image from the 9atom webpage and booted
>> >> it up. First, I tried amd64 (selection 0), in a second or so, some
>> >> text went past the screen quickly and the machine rebooted. I then
>> >> tried selection 1 (386pae), that booted up but quickly halted with
>> >> this:
>> >>
>> >> Plan 9
>> >> E820: ....
>> >> ...
>> >> apic: 6 machs started; flat mode vectors
>> >> winbont ffff.ff hw fff8
>> >>   no capabilities
>> >> panic: kernel fault: no user process pc=f0162415 addr=0x000000a8
>> >> panic: kernel fault: no user process pc=f0162415 addr=0x000000a8
>> >> dumpstack disabled
>> >> cpu0: exiting
>> >> cpu0: spurious interrupt 39, last 0
>> >>
>> >> and it hangs there.
>> >
>> > The mother board is ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3.
>> >
>> > <http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M4A89GTD_PROUSB3/>
>>
>> Also for the record, I also tried the Labs plan9 usb image. That
>> didn't go past a few initial prints either. I didn't note them down
>> but it was different from the ones reported above with 9atom and
>> failed much earlier.
>>
>> --
>>   Ramakrishnan
>>
>
> it appears this motherboard is using usb 3 aka xhci. i don't know for
> certain but i don't think any plan 9 (fork or not-a-fork) has xhci
> support. looking through the archive, there was talk of xhci about a
> year ago.
>
> try disabling usb 3.0 in the bios setting and see if it makes progress
> when booting from usb.

Thanks, I tried disabling usb 3.0 in the bios and I am still getting
stuck at the same place with the 9atom image.

--
  Ramakrishnan