[9fans] Problems Booting Plan9 CD

[9fans] Problems Booting Plan9 CD

[Eldanen]

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Hello there 9fans mailing list,

I recently burned/downloaded several copies of the (Live)CD (to make sure I
got a good burn), but when trying to boot from it, I always managed to get
an error just before the StartUp Menu was supposed to appear.

Relevant information, including hardware info, is here:

http://home.earthlink.net/eldanen/pastes/dmesg - The dmesg output from my
Linux installation
http://home.earthlink.net/eldanenlpastes/plan9output - The output from the
failed boot

I have my CD drive on primary master IDE, if that's relevant.

Thanks.

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Re: [9fans] Problems Booting Plan9 CD

[erik quanstrom]

there appear to be typos in your links

- erik

> Hello there 9fans mailing list,
> 
> I recently burned/downloaded several copies of the (Live)CD (to make sure I
> got a good burn), but when trying to boot from it, I always managed to get
> an error just before the StartUp Menu was supposed to appear.
> 
> Relevant information, including hardware info, is here:
> 
> http://home.earthlink.net/eldanen/pastes/dmesg - The dmesg output from my
> Linux installation
> http://home.earthlink.net/eldanenlpastes/plan9output - The output from the
> failed boot
> 
> I have my CD drive on primary master IDE, if that's relevant.
> 
> Thanks.

Re: [9fans] Problems Booting Plan9 CD

[Eldanen]

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Oh.  I apologize for that:

http://home.earthlink.net/~eldanen/pastes/dmesg
http://home.earthlink.net/~eldanen/pastes/plan9output

On 11/1/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>
> there appear to be typos in your links
>
> - erik
>
> > Hello there 9fans mailing list,
> >
> > I recently burned/downloaded several copies of the (Live)CD (to make
> sure I
> > got a good burn), but when trying to boot from it, I always managed to
> get
> > an error just before the StartUp Menu was supposed to appear.
> >
> > Relevant information, including hardware info, is here:
> >
> > http://home.earthlink.net/eldanen/pastes/dmesg - The dmesg output from
> my
> > Linux installation
> > http://home.earthlink.net/eldanenlpastes/plan9output - The output from
> the
> > failed boot
> >
> > I have my CD drive on primary master IDE, if that's relevant.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
>

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Re: [9fans] Problems Booting Plan9 CD

[erik quanstrom]

> Oh.  I apologize for that:
> 
> http://home.earthlink.net/~eldanen/pastes/dmesg
> http://home.earthlink.net/~eldanen/pastes/plan9output

i don't see any error.  (the pcirouting whine is harmless.)
does it just hang?

i'm pretty sure that plan 9 will not recognize your hard
drive, as it is plugged into port #5 and plan 9 doesn't
do nvidia's sata.  if you plugged it into port #0 or #1,
it would likely show up as /dev/sdE0 or /dev/sdF0 using
ide emulation.  this is how my home machine works.

- erik

Re: [9fans] Problems Booting Plan9 CD

[Eldanen]

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Ah.  Okay.  So that's probably the problem.  I'll switch it out and see what
happens.  (My first time building a PC was with this one, hehe.)

On 11/1/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>
> > Oh.  I apologize for that:
> >
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~eldanen/pastes/dmesg
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~eldanen/pastes/plan9output
>
> i don't see any error.  (the pcirouting whine is harmless.)
> does it just hang?
>
> i'm pretty sure that plan 9 will not recognize your hard
> drive, as it is plugged into port #5 and plan 9 doesn't
> do nvidia's sata.  if you plugged it into port #0 or #1,
> it would likely show up as /dev/sdE0 or /dev/sdF0 using
> ide emulation.  this is how my home machine works.
>
> - erik
>
>

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Re: [9fans] Problems Booting Plan9 CD

[Eldanen]

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By the way, yes it does hang.  I plugged the HDD into Sata #1 (no #0 in the
BIOS.)  I then inserted the plan9 CD, and it hung at the same point.  What
next?

On 11/1/07, Eldanen <eldanen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ah.  Okay.  So that's probably the problem.  I'll switch it out and see
> what happens.  (My first time building a PC was with this one, hehe.)
>
> On 11/1/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Oh.  I apologize for that:
> > >
> > > http://home.earthlink.net/~eldanen/pastes/dmesg<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Eeldanen/pastes/dmesg>
> > > http://home.earthlink.net/~eldanen/pastes/plan9output<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Eeldanen/pastes/plan9output>
> >
> > i don't see any error.  (the pcirouting whine is harmless.)
> > does it just hang?
> >
> > i'm pretty sure that plan 9 will not recognize your hard
> > drive, as it is plugged into port #5 and plan 9 doesn't
> > do nvidia's sata.  if you plugged it into port #0 or #1,
> > it would likely show up as /dev/sdE0 or /dev/sdF0 using
> > ide emulation.  this is how my home machine works.
> >
> > - erik
> >
> >
>

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Re: [9fans] Problems Booting Plan9 CD

[erik quanstrom]

> By the way, yes it does hang.  I plugged the HDD into Sata #1 (no #0 in the
> BIOS.)  I then inserted the plan9 CD, and it hung at the same point.  What
> next?

i guess bios doesn't know how to count. ;-)

geoff may have better ideas than i, but you might try disabling the
floppy drive with bios.

i don't run the new 9load at this point.  sorry i can't be of more help.

- erik

Re: [9fans] Problems Booting Plan9 CD

[Eldanen]

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Hehe.  There is no floppy drive.  But thanks for all the help you've given
me.

On 11/1/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>
> > By the way, yes it does hang.  I plugged the HDD into Sata #1 (no #0 in
> the
> > BIOS.)  I then inserted the plan9 CD, and it hung at the same
> point.  What
> > next?
>
> i guess bios doesn't know how to count. ;-)
>
> geoff may have better ideas than i, but you might try disabling the
> floppy drive with bios.
>
> i don't run the new 9load at this point.  sorry i can't be of more help.
>
> - erik
>
>

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Re: [9fans] Problems Booting Plan9 CD

[erik quanstrom]

> Hehe.  There is no floppy drive.  But thanks for all the help you've given
> me.

exactly.  disable it in bios.

- erik

Re: [9fans] Problems Booting Plan9 CD

[Sander van Dijk]

Hi,

The image from yesterday (Nov 1, 2007) panics when I boot it in qemu,
maybe this is related to the topic starter's problem?
I try to boot it with "qemu -cdrom plan9.iso -boot d", and it produces
the following output:

Booting from CD-Rom...
PBS1...Plan 9 from Bell Labs
ELCR: 0A00
apm ax=f000 cx=f000 dx=f000 di=fff0 ebx=9e22 esi=-f0010
dev A0 port 170 config 85C0 capabilities 0300 mwdma 0007 udma 203F
found partition sdD0!cdboot; 49992+1440
FLAGS=246 TRAP=0 ECODE=0 PC=8002ffe7
  AX 00000000  BX 80044774  CX 00000000  DX 00000000
  SI 00000200  DI 00000000  BP 80047da4
  CS 0010 DS 0008  ES 0008  FS 0008  GS 0008
  CR0 80000011 CR2 00000000 CR3 0000c000
panic: exception/interrupt 0

Press almost any key to reset..

Greetings, Sander.

Re: [9fans] Problems Booting Plan9 CD

[Eldanen]

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Aha.  Yes.  I noticed that issue when I turned off one of the settings
dealing with my HDD, something dealing with the auto-detection settings for
my SATA HDD in my BIOS,  access mode (large, auto), extended IDE drive
(auto, none).  So, those three things.  And I was able to reproduce that
error.

On 11/2/07, Sander van Dijk <a.h.vandijk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The image from yesterday (Nov 1, 2007) panics when I boot it in qemu,
> maybe this is related to the topic starter's problem?
> I try to boot it with "qemu -cdrom plan9.iso -boot d", and it produces
> the following output:
>
> Booting from CD-Rom...
> PBS1...Plan 9 from Bell Labs
> ELCR: 0A00
> apm ax=f000 cx=f000 dx=f000 di=fff0 ebx=9e22 esi=-f0010
> dev A0 port 170 config 85C0 capabilities 0300 mwdma 0007 udma 203F
> found partition sdD0!cdboot; 49992+1440
> FLAGS=246 TRAP=0 ECODE=0 PC=8002ffe7
>   AX 00000000  BX 80044774  CX 00000000  DX 00000000
>   SI 00000200  DI 00000000  BP 80047da4
>   CS 0010 DS 0008  ES 0008  FS 0008  GS 0008
>   CR0 80000011 CR2 00000000 CR3 0000c000
> panic: exception/interrupt 0
>
> Press almost any key to reset..
>
> Greetings, Sander.
>

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Re: [9fans] Problems Booting Plan9 CD

[Joshua Wood]

> Hehe.  There is no floppy drive.  But thanks for all the help  
> you've given
> me.

In my experience, that is precisely the reason why you should follow  
erik's suggestion and disable that non-existent floppy in bios.

More to the point, you can boot with an older iso image; I've been  
using my 10/12 burn for exactly that purpose. Once you have a plan 9  
system up, you have access to pull(1) and sourcesdump/yyyy/mmdd/ 
plan9/386/9load to do your testing of the (several, lately) new 9load  
on your hardware, and a bootable cd with a known-good 9load when you  
fail.

My follow-on question for the list based on my experience with that  
general procedure is: Is there anywhere to get an old iso image for  
someone in Eldanen's situation? (That is, neither an old burn to fall  
back on nor an existing plan9 machine to use to get an old 9load from  
sourcesdump to make a bootstrap for his new machine?)

--
josh

Re: [9fans] Problems Booting Plan9 CD

[Eldanen]

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The non-existant floppy is gone from the BIOS.  It was set to off before I
started trying to boot the plan9 CD.

On 11/1/07, Joshua Wood <josh@utopian.net> wrote:
>
>
> > Hehe.  There is no floppy drive.  But thanks for all the help
> > you've given
> > me.
>
> In my experience, that is precisely the reason why you should follow
> erik's suggestion and disable that non-existent floppy in bios.
>
> More to the point, you can boot with an older iso image; I've been
> using my 10/12 burn for exactly that purpose. Once you have a plan 9
> system up, you have access to pull(1) and sourcesdump/yyyy/mmdd/
> plan9/386/9load to do your testing of the (several, lately) new 9load
> on your hardware, and a bootable cd with a known-good 9load when you
> fail.
>
> My follow-on question for the list based on my experience with that
> general procedure is: Is there anywhere to get an old iso image for
> someone in Eldanen's situation? (That is, neither an old burn to fall
> back on nor an existing plan9 machine to use to get an old 9load from
> sourcesdump to make a bootstrap for his new machine?)
>
> --
> josh
>

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RE: [9fans] Problems Booting Plan9 CD

[cej]

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I have several old iso images on a cd, can share if it helps...
Regards,
peter.



-----Original Message-----
From: 9fans-bounces+cej=gli.cas.cz@cse.psu.edu on behalf of Joshua Wood
Sent: Fri 11/2/2007 1:15 AM
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Problems Booting Plan9 CD
 

> Hehe.  There is no floppy drive.  But thanks for all the help  
> you've given
> me.

In my experience, that is precisely the reason why you should follow  
erik's suggestion and disable that non-existent floppy in bios.

More to the point, you can boot with an older iso image; I've been  
using my 10/12 burn for exactly that purpose. Once you have a plan 9  
system up, you have access to pull(1) and sourcesdump/yyyy/mmdd/ 
plan9/386/9load to do your testing of the (several, lately) new 9load  
on your hardware, and a bootable cd with a known-good 9load when you  
fail.

My follow-on question for the list based on my experience with that  
general procedure is: Is there anywhere to get an old iso image for  
someone in Eldanen's situation? (That is, neither an old burn to fall  
back on nor an existing plan9 machine to use to get an old 9load from  
sourcesdump to make a bootstrap for his new machine?)

--
josh


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[9fans] Problems booting Plan9 CD

[Alexander Serkov]

I've my old PC and wish to use it as Plan9 Box
I've read supported hardware and it seems it should work:

Intel Celeron 366
VIA Apollo Pro chipset
3Com 3c905b ethernet card
S3 Savage4 vidio
Ultra DMA 33 IDE drive.

But when CD from 20040227 starts booting kernel it hangs after
the following message:

pcirouting: BIOS workaround: PCI.0.7.2 at pin 4 link 5 irq9 -> 10

Can abybody sujest me something?