From: Eldanen <eldanen@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Suggestion: Programming Tutorial for /sys/doc
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 19:40:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e42b9de40711031640m77d13abuae18c2e9a1e1f2d0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0a469a01247bdfd65db30fb0e1a51922@quanstro.net>
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No dice on changing the USB settings in the BIOS. Or a bunch of other
settings on/off, that I tried. The only thing that was able to get an error
message to show was turning off Extended IDE for my SATA HDD :/. Strange.
Thanks, though :).
On 11/3/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>
> > The Nov 3rd image didn't work for me. But, by turning off extended IDE
> mode
> > for my HDD, I was able to get an error message in assembly rather than
> it
> > just hanging without any error message. (Not sure if that makes it
> > irrelevant, but anyway.)
> >
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~eldanen/pastes/dmesg
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~eldanen/pastes/plan9output
> >
> > The following was appended to "plan9output":
> >
> > FLAGS=10246 TRAP=0 ENCODE=0 PC=80030089
> > AX 00000000 BX 8004483c CX 00000000 DX 00000000
> > SI 0000020 DI 00000000 BP 80047e6c
> > CS 0010 DS 0008 ES 0008 FS 0008 GS 0008
> > CRO 80000011 CR2 00f0c05c CR3 0000c000
> > panic: exception/interrupt 0
> >
> > Press almost any key to reset...
>
> it didn't print anything else, did it? the pc indicates that these
> lines should have been executed
>
> ; acid /n/sources/plan9/386/9loaddebug
> /n/sources/plan9/386/9loaddebug:386 plan 9 boot image
> /sys/lib/acid/port
> /sys/lib/acid/386
> acid: src(0x80030089)
> /sys/src/boot/pc/ether.c:119
>
> /n/sources/plan9/sys/src/boot/pc/ether.c
> 108 print("ether#%d: %s: port 0x%luX irq %lud",
> 109 ctlr->ctlrno, ctlr->type, ctlr->port,
> ctlr->irq);
> [...]
> 118 ctlr->rb = ialloc(sizeof(RingBuf)*ctlr->nrb, 0);
> >119 if(ctlr->ntb == 0
>
> here's a wild stab in the dark which has bitten us for an embedded
> kernel we run. make sure to turn off legacy emulation for usb devices
> in the bios. (phoenix bios has this option in the second tab under one
> of the bottom selections.) legacy emulation can turn on system management
> mode. system management mode takes over system resources (like memory)
> to run the emulation code and then puts things back. the os is not
> supposed to notice, but sometimes the emulation is not seemless.
> (or perhaps we don't know all the magic spots in memory.) either way,
> it's worth a shot.
>
> - erik
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-03 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-01 20:11 Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-01 20:23 ` don bailey
2007-11-01 20:47 ` Anthony Sorace
2007-11-01 21:00 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-01 21:22 ` Federico Benavento
2007-11-02 13:10 ` Iruata Souza
2007-11-02 13:34 ` David Leimbach
2007-11-02 13:39 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-02 16:44 ` geoff
2007-11-02 18:00 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-02 19:34 ` geoff
2007-11-02 20:57 ` David Leimbach
2007-11-03 2:44 ` Gorka Guardiola
2007-11-03 8:49 ` Sander van Dijk
2007-11-03 15:24 ` Eldanen
2007-11-03 21:43 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-03 23:40 ` Eldanen [this message]
2007-11-06 14:39 ` [9fans] Font Michaelian Ennis
2007-11-06 14:46 ` Anant Narayanan
2007-11-06 14:50 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-07 18:12 ` Michaelian Ennis
2007-11-06 14:56 ` Martin Neubauer
2007-11-05 11:59 ` [9fans] Suggestion: Programming Tutorial for /sys/doc Gorka Guardiola
2007-11-02 18:09 ` David Leimbach
2007-11-02 18:47 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-02 20:11 ` Iruata Souza
2007-11-02 18:52 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-01 21:27 ` Uriel
2007-11-02 1:44 ` Anthony Sorace
2007-11-02 7:53 ` Uriel
2007-11-01 21:24 ` ISHWAR RATTAN
2007-11-02 3:07 ` Joel C. Salomon
2007-11-02 8:19 ` fernanbolando
2007-11-02 10:03 ` roger peppe
2007-11-02 13:07 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-11-02 12:42 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-02 15:39 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-11-02 19:12 ` Anant Narayanan
2007-11-02 19:44 ` Pietro Gagliardi
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