From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 doesn't boot on a (fairly new) computer
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:47:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dfaf813b8dc8ca2f14f73f305b9808b4@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<3aaafc130911231227x377ef04fr23170a73ce3f72f1@mail.gmail.com>>
> The Plan 9 and 9atom liveCDs have the same problem: when the `root is
> from' prompt appears,
> nothing happens and the keyboard does not work. The keyboard is not
> usb and no usb devices
> are plugged in. Both liveCDs apparently have nomp set, as only one cpu
> is detected.
>
> I had to change the `boot from' option on the vanilla Plan 9 CD,
> because my motherboard/BIOS
> does not let me have IDE drives as secondary master. 9atom seemed to
> handle this better, but
> both get stuck at the `root is from' prompt. Someone suggested Plan9
> may not like the southbridge
> on this motherboard (an AMD SB710).
>
> Any ideas?
is there a legacy usb option in bios? if there is, i would
turn that off. also, could you send me the output of
pci or lspci offline. i'd like to double check the southbridge
and the ahci/ide dids. i suspect that's the problem.
- erik
next parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-23 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <<3aaafc130911231227x377ef04fr23170a73ce3f72f1@mail.gmail.com>
2009-11-23 20:47 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-11-23 20:27 Jorden Mauro
2010-07-17 20:00 ` Akshat Kumar
2010-07-17 23:08 ` EBo
2010-07-17 23:26 ` Akshat Kumar
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