From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Fletcher To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu In-Reply-To: <20010531194342.B7DD519A33@mail.cse.psu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: [9fans] Install problems Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 14:51:14 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: abba7322-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I am having trouble trying to install Plan9 rel.3 on my laptop. It's a TI Extensa 565, 75MHz Pentium with 40M ram and a free 500MB area on the disk (the first 250MB belongs to MS-DOS.) My install disk is from the 12 Apr 01 disk image. Here's what happens: Insert disk and power on. PBS works ok apm is found -- is this the power management Bios ? loader find fd0!dos!plan9.ini dev A0 1F0 is found -- must be the IDE disk ctlr 9PCFLOP.GZ is found and unzipped (many dots followed by sizes looks like the old text+data+bss stuff) loader finds cpu0, #y0 (an i82365SL), and dev A0 again and says: 5830 free pages 23320K bytes 114520K swap root is from offers local!/bzroot as the default - I take it. next comes kfs...boot: nop... and then Different errors bunzip2: decompress failed sometimes kfs: premature eof reading /386/bin/ip/ppp <---- boot fatal: read nop: file does not exist panic: boot process died: unknown but always this ktrace /kernel/path 801064e2 80007ce4 <---- address [a hex dump follows this -- and finally...] cpu0: exiting And the machine freezes. I have rebuilt the diskette several times and tried it in other systems and get either some version of a rio screen, or at least an rc % prompt. Possible problem may be that my Bios shadows the system ROM to F605-FFFF, and there is no way to disable shadowing in the Bios setup. Am I just outta luck? I have a working Plan9 system on a desktop machine (built from an earlier version of 9disk.9fd) if that could help me debug things; but the laptop has no network card. I'd appreciate any ideas you may have on how to get the install working. Thanks, -Mike Fletcher Sys Admin - EECS Tulane University