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From: Justin Jackson <jjackson385@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Install CD hanging on "probing floppy"
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:10:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e0ce39581003220410l3c39a910udd6986550803074c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a32f10179711d0c1986fe79e72063e65@quintile.net>

I'll let it sit for a while and see if it goes anywhere...

Is the distribution you linked to anything like 9atom? Trying 9atom
seems to be a common suggestion for these issues, so I gave it a shot
and it freezes too, though the output is a little bit different. It
prints:

PBS1...Plan 9 from Bell Labs
ELCR: 0E20
pcirouting: 8086/24DB at pin 1 irq 5
cpu0: 2793 MHz Pentium IV/Xeon loop 53571
apm ax=f000 cx=f000 dx=fdf9 di=0 ebx=100469 esi=0
found 5 e820 entries

...and then freezes.


On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> I have been playing with an 2004 vintage P4 machine which
> similarly hangs at probing floppy... but after a long time,
> perhaps 30 secs it continues.
>
> Have you tried waiting for this long?
>
> Have you tried Erik's alternative distribution:
> ftp://ftp.quanstro.net/other/plan9.iso.bz2
>
> It has subtly different drivers and might suit your machine better.
>
> -Steve
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-22 11:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-22  7:01 Justin Jackson
2010-03-22 10:02 ` Steve Simon
2010-03-22 11:10   ` Justin Jackson [this message]
2010-03-22 15:35     ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-22 16:31       ` EBo
2010-03-22 18:58         ` Justin Jackson
2010-03-22 19:04           ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-22 11:21   ` cinap_lenrek
2010-03-22 11:39     ` EBo
2010-03-22 14:22     ` David Leimbach
2010-03-22 13:48   ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-23 22:33   ` Adriano Verardo

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