[9fans] VESA ISO from 9grid.de

[9fans] VESA ISO from 9grid.de

[Ronald G. Minnich]

ok, I have a rather stupid piece of hardware that only has one IDE 
channel. 

If I set up cdrom as slave, hdd as master, I can boot the cd (option 2),
but if I try the option of 'install from cd', at some point the system
locks up (after some processes have started).

Anybody tried doing this?

thanks

ron

Re: [9fans] VESA ISO from 9grid.de

[David Leimbach]

Never had it lock up... but I've had to be very specific as to which  
device the CDROM is on.

Plan 9 installer is not really "configurable" in this way but it's  
not too hard to work around either.

Dave
On Jun 24, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:

>
> ok, I have a rather stupid piece of hardware that only has one IDE
> channel.
>
> If I set up cdrom as slave, hdd as master, I can boot the cd  
> (option 2),
> but if I try the option of 'install from cd', at some point the system
> locks up (after some processes have started).
>
> Anybody tried doing this?
>
> thanks
>
> ron
>

Re: [9fans] VESA ISO from 9grid.de

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, David Leimbach wrote:

> Never had it lock up... but I've had to be very specific as to which device
> the CDROM is on.

slave device on ide primary channel.

Anyway, I just went and found a 2-channel machine, I'm using that for the 
install

ron

Re: [9fans] VESA iso from 9grid.de

[Boyd 'rounin' Roberts]

> works on my sony VAIO VGN-S3HP @ 8 bit VGA.  the display is 1280x800x32,

bugger, s/S3/S2/
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Re: [9fans] VESA iso from 9grid.de

[Boyd 'rounin' Roberts]

works on my sony VAIO VGN-S3HP @ 8 bit VGA.  the display is 1280x800x32,
but i thought i'd keep it simple.

pity i can't boot it off NTFS.
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Re: [9fans] VESA iso from 9grid.de

[Jason Gurtz]

On 6/21/2005 13:26, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> works on T21, just fine. I don't know if people have this on the list.

Do you have the 1400x1050 panel on yours?

I had non-vesa running at I think 800x600x8 before.  Unfortunately, the
actual panel died (started flickering/buzzing & went dark) just 3 weeks
ago :(  Otherwise I would test.

Anyone know a good source of grey market panels?  It'd be a shame to lose
the nice laptop.

~Jason

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[9fans] VESA iso from 9grid.de

[Ronald G. Minnich]

works on T21, just fine. I don't know if people have this on the list. 

This is an old S3 chipset.

The mouse is not as snappy as the standard driver, at least to my eyes.

ron