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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:10:44 -0500
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From: Justin Jackson <jjackson385@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Install CD hanging on "probing floppy"
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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
>
>