From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:47:57 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <<3aaafc130911231227x377ef04fr23170a73ce3f72f1@mail.gmail.com>> References: <<3aaafc130911231227x377ef04fr23170a73ce3f72f1@mail.gmail.com>> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 doesn't boot on a (fairly new) computer Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9ee0cb4a-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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